Arriving fresh from the classroom to our unit, Auri was one of several new critical care nurses and the Dnly LPN in the group. I figured that she could learn the most from my experience-I'd been a nurse for about 12 years. I decided to go out of my way to help mentor her, never suspecting how she'd wind up mentoring me.In those first days in the unit, Auri came to me often with questions, so I frequently witnessed the compassionate way she cared for her patients. One of her patients, Car la, was unresponsive and terminally ill. All alone in the world, she had no living family or friends to come visit or even check on her. When we were charting one day, Auri remarked on how sad it would be if Carla died alone, with no one knowing or caring that she'd died.
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