title: The Moments That Drive Your Journey.
abstract: Nurses provide patients and their families will equal respect, care, and advocacy. However, there are moments with special patients that sink right into our hearts and keep us going. You know the ones! Those little moments you reflect on when the work feels overwhelming or when you don't think you can possibly make it through another crazy 12-hour hospital shift. Maybe a patient made your day and thanked you for going the extra mile. Or maybe they gave you a coloring book page they colored especially for you. Maybe the moment was so brief that no onlooker or passerby would realize it could ever mean something to you, but it did. .
authors.affiliation: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
authors.forename: Dominique
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Motta
mesh_terms: D002321:Career Choice; D002983:Clinical Competence; D004645:Empathy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009859:Oncology Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D016526:Workload
keywords: leukemia; nursing ; oncology; pediatric