Just Another Day

Most days as a nurse are long days. Shifts stretch from twelve to fourteen hours, meals are missed, tempers flare. Needs seem endless and sometimes they are unmeetable, no matter how you wish you could answer them all. You see patients disheartened, you see patients lonely. You see their moods mirrored on the faces of your colleagues. Hearts hidden and hearts on the sleeve. You pass somebody that you’ve met once or twice going up in an elevator while looking down and you want to reach out and say that really, it’s going to be okay. Instead you just say, “Hey.” And at the end of it all ………it’s just another day.

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