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Sitcoms satirize them, the media ignore them, doctors won’t listen to them, and now hospitals are laying them off, sacrificing them to corporate medicine — yet nurses’ contributions to patients and families is beyond price.

In the bayou south of New Orleans, a program called the Nurse-Family Partnership tries to reverse the life chances for babies born into extreme poverty. Sometimes it actually succeeds.

Tereza Sedgwick trains to become a nurse aid, one of the fastest-growing — and most challenging — jobs in America.

An interview with Theresa Brown, author of The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve hours, Four Patients’ Lives.

A former nurse who left to become an English professor remembers the stress of her first career.

A palliative care nurse on the inspiring lessons she learned from her dying patients.