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Witnessing and enabling a teenager's successful head injury recovery has reaffirmed one nurse's philosophy of treating patients with head injuries in full confidence of a successful outcome. A 17-year-old college-bound high school student sustained an internal head injury during a car accident leaving him in a coma. Routine treatment and a positive attitude by the attending nurse and his family resulted in his steady improvement and eventual full recovery.

A nurse recalls an experience she had while caring for a woman who had died and whose husband consented to give up her organs for donation. Unlike most medical personnel assigned to care for such patients, the nurse still considered the woman as her patient. In addition, she tried to get to know the woman through pictures of her family. She tried also to console the woman's husband, reminding him about how his wife's organs will help further the lives of its recipients.