21.   Little wonder, then, that nurses have had to develop a resilience required of few other professionals.

22.   Nurses have a heavy caseload and can easily walk into the wrong room with the wrong pills.

23.   Nurses have far more medical responsibilities than outsiders think, she says.

24.   School nurses have had to call ambulances for some children.

25.   Shawn Nau, county personnel director, said the nurses simply will have to learn to float among care units.

26.   So has the nurse.

27.   Similarly, the nursing board keeps secret any allegations against nurses that have not yet been acted on, leaving the public to assume these nurses have clean records.

28.   Some nurses have long nails, but not the one I play.

29.   Studied the behavioral impact that nurses who smoke have on their patients.

30.   The frustrated nurses have no union but have formed a group called Nursing Coalition for Quality Care.