Nobody’s nun, nobody’s nursemaid, and nobody’s fool.

This moving and eye-opening chronicle of a nursing career gradually fleshes out the portrait of a widely appreciated profession whose day-to-day reality is often misunderstood. Formal training, practical experience, confrontations with difficult patients, salary issues, handling a patient’s loved ones, internal conflicts within a hospital—these personal anecdotes bring to light the very human character of nursing as a profession, and the lasting inner repercussions of being in such close contact with other people’s pain and suffering.