After retiring from nursing, Peggy Storck recalls her student days, her entry into ED nursing, the patients who influenced her practice, and the mixed feelings she has at leaving the profession she's come to love.

Despite a repeat patient's refusal to accept advice or change her multiple unhealthy behaviors, this nurse perseveres and finds the right moment to deliver a respectful yet clear health-improvement lesson.

The author's early fascination with nursing guided her into a lifelong devotion to caring for and comforting patients, which has influenced the way she views her life.

The author allows a father, who has brought in a baby showing signs of physical abuse, to do the talking, which results in a confession of guilt.

The story of Anna, a Polish Holocaust and death camp survivor whom the Nazis forced to become a hospital nurse during World War II.

A fellow nurse stood in the gap between a child's need for pain relief and the need to educate a resident--and emphasized that advocacy means recognizing all clients require individualized care.

A frail, aging victim of Parkinson's disease offers a nurse and her students a lesson in compassion for the most helpless patients.

We need to tend not only to the physical needs of a sick child, but also to the psychosocial needs of the family.

This future nursing student shares his thoughts from the other end of the needle.