Being a nurse is about saving patients’ lives. ▪ Being a nurse is about making sure a patient doesn’t develop a fatal complication before, during, or after surgery. ▪ It’s about paying attention to the “small” but significant details such as smoothing out the wrinkles on a sheet so a patient doesn’t develop an excruciating and costly bedsore. ▪ Sometimes by sitting and talking to someone, I find out the most important things—like whether patients understand how to take their medications, whether they have
