When you're a CNA and the patient starts telling you about their wild adventures in the hospital.
Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.
To do what nobody else will do, a way that nobody else can do, in spite of all we go through; that is to be a nurse.
The look you give your colleague when you both know what really happens during night shifts.
The trained nurse has become one of the great blessings of humanity, taking a place beside the physician and the priest.
That moment when you're trying to maintain professionalism but your patient's joke is just too good.