Caring for someone else is not all about you

Incoming students, you need to hear this: it’s not all about you. Let me explain.

My first hospital rotation was on an oncology floor. I answered a patient’s call light by myself. She asked if we had any extra tissues, I said yes, and as I turned to leave she said, “I just got a phone call from my mother’s nurse.” Her mother was in hospice care, and the nurse had …

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