Reprints of the Reflections columns from the American Journal of Nursing.

Includes bibliographical references.

Machine generated contents note: Heartbreakers -- 1. Grief Train / Cheryl A. Dellasega -- 2. Hardest Decision / Amanda L. Richmond -- 3. Price of a Miracle / V. Jude Forbes -- 4. No Regrets / Arlene Koch -- 5. Florida Vacation / Lorraine Randall -- 6. In the Hand of Dad / Sam Bastian -- 7. Inseparable / Dawne De Voe Olbrych -- 8. Steven / Karen Roush -- Colleagues, for Better or Worse -- 9. Roger's Angst / Evelyn Lawson-Jonsson -- 10. Blame Game / Natosha Cramer -- 11. Who's the Fool? / Nancy L. Ball -- 12. Ordinary Things / Cindy McCoy -- 13. Deception / Corina DeVries -- Career Is a Forking Path -- 14. Fine Art of Leaving / Cortney Davis -- 15. Making It Fit / Meredith Bailey -- 16. Intensive Care / John B. Fiddler -- 17. Am I a Nurse? / Donna Diers -- 18. Moment of Grace / Cheryl Dellasega -- 19. Promises to Keep / Judy Morse -- 20. Eyes of a Pediatric Nurse / Beverly Rossiter -- Connecting/Disconnecting -- 21. Before the Signal Fades / Robbie Ravert -- 22. Paper Chart Nurse / Joyce Hislop -- 23. Final Connection / Cynthia Stock -- 24. Chaos / Lorraine Dale -- 25. Heads and Beds / Marie E. Lasater -- Lessons Learned -- 26. Ice-Bag Incident / Kathleen L. Sitzman -- 27. Nurse, Heal Thyself / Maureen Anthony -- 28. Pain / Cortney Davis -- 29. At the Night Camp / Meg Sniderman -- 30. Skipped Two Times / Shixiang Luo -- 31. Tending Mr. Brown / Dorothy Miller -- Getting Started -- 32. Prospering of Cheaters / Ray Bingham -- 33. Touchy-Feely Stuff / Sally Bellerose -- 34. Where's My Hospice Moment? / Veneta Masson -- 35. My First Preceptor / Judith L. Reishtein -- 36. Bed Bath / Kathleen Hughes -- 37. Nurse? What Was I Thinking? / Elizabeth Tillotson -- 38. Special Kind of Knowledge / Janet L. Richards -- 39. Coming Home to Nursing / Nancy Walters -- All in the Family -- 40. Two Nurses---One Old, One New / Lois A. Gerber -- 41. Morphine. Now / Peggy Vincent -- 42. At the Eye of the Storm / Karen Schoonmaker -- 43. Census of One, Staff of Five / Elizabeth Corso Falter -- 44. Nurse's Mother's Nurses / Donna Diers -- 45. Place for Palliative Care / Carrie A. Bennett -- Doctor Jekyll and Doctor Hyde -- 46. Last Rights / John A. Forrant -- 47. My Turn / Michael M. Bloomfield -- 48. Smart Doctor Listens to the Nurses / Ann Fleming Beach -- From the Other Side -- 49. Seized / Jennifer K. Englund -- 50. Brat / Tiana Tozer -- 51. Game of What If? / Susan Luton -- 52. Third Way / Andrew Merton -- 53. Every Three Months / Amy Noel Green -- 54. Intake Interview / Joy Ladin -- 55. Passing Shadow / Gail Lukasik -- 56. Stone of Contention / Tim Bascom -- 57. Swabbing Tubby / Susan Clements -- 58. To the Child They Were All One Kind / Sandra Stone -- 59. Breathing Room / Linda Meierhoffer -- Tables Turned -- 60. To Mania and Back / Joan Schmidt -- 61. At Her Mercy / Alice C. Facente -- 62. Big Love / Marcia Gardner -- 63. Mind in Search of Its Moorings / Jean DiMotto -- 64. Other Cancer Story / Suellen Hozman -- 65. Enduring Self / Marilyn Wargo -- 66. Sacraments of Sister Thecla / Madeleine Mysko -- Making A Difference -- 67. Am I Going to Be Okay? / Danielle Allen -- 68. Socks and All... / Bryanne Hickey Harrington -- 69. Change of Heart / Nancy Cabianca -- 70. Brief Respite / Kelly Carroll -- 71. May I Have a Band-Aid? / Veneta Masson -- 72. Dirtiest House in Town / Alice C. Facente -- 73. What One Thing Will Make Today Better for You? / Susan L. Goff -- Memorable Patients -- 74. Hiding a Tender Soul / Cheryl Kane -- 75. Keeping Secrets / Elena Schwolsky -- 76. Man of Few Words / Kathryn Mason -- 77. I'm Sorry / Claire Browen -- 78. Convicted / Lisa M. Cook -- 79. Edna and the Bedside Tables / Diane M. Goodman -- 80. Thomas / Emily Maloney.