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 …
