The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients' Lives

by Theresa Brown

I say, put the patient at the center and figure out the money from there.

That’s the hard thing about empathy—even people with an abundance of it can run out.

She’s a PITA: Pain In The Ass.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour

wish I had more time to sit and hold every patient’s hand.

Sometimes people just need to talk, to say the same things over and over and over.

I only have four patients. Four. How can taking care of them feel so impossible?

fatigue is a thief of concentration and memory