*Blushes*

My patient today said the nicest thing to me at the end of my shift. She told me that my care had turned her around today, that she'd gone from feeling lethargic and depressed to feeling energized and so much more optimistic about her prognosis because of all I'd done for her today. I have to say I was touched and pleased, and that it is this kind of feedback that makes me really happy to do the work I do. And honestly, all I did was what I try to do all the time: listen, and respond in a respectful and caring manner to her words, and try to be the kind of nurse who makes her patients feel better, the kind of nurse I'd want to have look after me if I were ill.

Days like today make me happy I chose to be a nurse all those years ago.