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This article takes the break from tradition in Fiddler on the Roof, and applies it to the education and profession of nursing. In Fiddler on the Roof Tevye says that without tradition, "our lives would be as shaky as a fiddler on the roof". His experiences and challenges with the breaking of tradition and still trying to apply it can be applied to nursing because in the nursing field, the teachers are always trying to affirm the core values in an always changing medical field. The article explains how the old traditions are sometimes not applied anymore. The new nurses watch videos of the old traditions and want to follow them. The new nurses made a video commemorating "Nurses in the 20th century" so that their traditions could also carry on.