In the following narrative, Rita described the way that a
patient/client responded to her as a nurse:
I saw a young woman, a 35 year old, yesterday, with one of our
doctors; that was our first visit to her and it was almost like we
touched on things that she didn’t really want to talk about and it
was a bit of an uncomfortable visit. I went back today because
there were a few things that I need to follow up on and we had a
connectedness – she just poured all this stuff out that didn’t come
out yesterday. Do you know what I mean? I just think it’s a
different way – people with nursing training just give off a
different aura that people connect to. They don’t see you as the
busy doctor whose only got a limited amount of time, (with no)
time to talk.