title: A day with Blake: hope on a medical-surgical unit.
abstract: All nurses care for patients who change their lives forever. Blake was one of those patients. Blake's story and the interventions his nurse (Amie) instituted illustrate a hope-promoting framework that medical-surgical nurses can use every day in practice.
authors.affiliation: Acute Medical and Trauma Unit, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Winston Salem, NC, USA.
authors.forename: Amie D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Donald D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Kautz
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009726:Nurses / Q000523:psychology*; D010361:Patients / Q000523:psychology*; D013527:Perioperative Nursing