A Nurses Open Letter to Alex Pretti, RN

A Nurses Open Letter to Alex Pretti, RN

We never shared a shift report in the early hours of the morning. If we passed each other in a hallway or stood in line for coffee in wrinkled, mismatched scrubs, I wouldn’t have known who you were.But I knew you.I knew you by the ache in your feet after twelve hours on the floor. I knew you by the weight you carried in your pocket and your heart. I grieve for you because you knew the cost of caring.You knew the “nursing bladder” and the missed …