| Introduction: The Anonymous, Irreplaceable Nurse
Lee Gutkind | p. 13 |
| Foreword: The Art of Meeting Patient Need
Karen Wolk Feinstein | p. 21 |
| Hitting the Bone
Eddie Lueken | p. 25 |
| The Haunting
Thomas Schwarz | p. 35 |
| Becoming a Nurse
Laura DeVaney | p. 47 |
| Next of Kin
Josephine Ensign | p. 57 |
| Healing Wang Jie's Bottom
L. Darby-Zhao | p. 71 |
| Zeitgeber
Denise Elliott | p. 83 |
| A Long Night's Journey into Day
Theresa Brown | p. 95 |
| Don't Ever Forget Me
Christopher Lance Coleman | p. 105 |
| Heart Lessons
Diane Kraynak | p. 113 |
| Docking in Togo
Jennifer Binger, as told to Ann Swindell | p. 129 |
| I See You
Tilda Shalqf | p. 143 |
| Listening and Other Lifesaving Measures
Karla Theilen | p. 153 |
| Careening toward Reunion
Nina Gaby | p. 167 |
| Nurse Nora at Nineteen
Nora Casper | p. 181 |
| Four Sticks
Janice Dvorak | p. 191 |
| Messiah, Not Otherwise Specified
Janet Gool | p. 203 |
| All Alone and Afraid: Becoming a Person through Nursing
Anna German | p. 217 |
| Individually Identifiable
Pamela Baker | p. 229 |
| Approaching Death
Kimberly A. Condon | p. 243 |
| The Nurses Whispered
Patricia A. Nugent | p. 251 |
| Becoming | p. 259 Lori Mul |