Department: Bedside Stories

Ivan Horbak, Edna Leary, and Charlie Wentworth … can Cheri make the connection?

A blue sweater, a ham sandwich, a drug handbook … and a dead nurse.

The lesson of one "non-compliant" patient …

Learn about a Brooklyn, NY, Music Therapist's work to engage – and employ – patients in residential treatment.

Remember: those embarrassing moments from your past rarely remain there.

In this excerpt from Cortney Davis's remarkable book I Knew a Woman, the nurse practitioner provides insight into her own close call with cancer.

Juliet Veal helps teens with cancer experience a quintessence of youth: prom night.

We've all had to do it. Cortney Davis has her own strategy.

Cynthia Piccolo investigates licensing bodies to learn about the crazy things people do to have their licenses revoked. Her discovery? Some stories are really eye-opening.

Witnessing unnecessary pain and death and not being able to help is overwhelming for every healthcare worker. Bonnie Jarvis-Lowe, a nurse, recalls one of those times, when all she could do was ask "Why?"

Mentally ill, but with the eye of an artist.

Personal experience made nurse Patricia Petersen a dedicated volunteer with Look Good Feel Better.

Lonni Trykowski is a PT. This is her poem about the elderly and her place in their world. For now, she is an outsider, but, one day, she knows she will take their place.

He remembers them, but do they remember him? A young respiratory therapist wonders about his patients' fates.

The nurse knows that sometimes the elderly patients want to talk just to hear another voice confirming their ties to humanity.

Maybe more people would enter nursing if they could experience a Chiffon Nurse, as did one frightened 6-year-old, 50 years ago.