Appropriate psychotropic use is a topic of great interest across a variety of clinical disciplines and specialties and is certainly not isolated to gerontology and aged care. Despite this, the multidisciplinary nature of the residential aged care sector introduces unique and interesting professional dynamics into discussions around psychotropic use. Oftentimes, this commentary includes characterisations or assumptions about nursing staff and nursing capacity with the sector. This presentation aims to explore the role of the Registered Nurse (RN) in psychotropic decision making, drawing on both representations of nurses in scholarly literature and the lived experiences of the presenter as a gerontological nurse, to increase interdisciplinary understanding and challenge assumptions. This presentation will explore how the RN role expanded in relation to psychotropic use and management under the Aged Care Act 1997, the nursing ‘stereotypes’ presented within academic literature, and identify a variety of methods for increasing the profile of nursing both within the aged care context, but also at the psychotropic decision-making table. This presentation aims to contextualise challenges facing both aged care nurses and, by extension, their non-nursing peers in a compassionate and collegial manner. This presentation is aimed at policy makers and industry practitioners.