Johanna Macias

Kaitlin Campos

Half past one, and the phone lights up: did you eat, did you sleep, are you still awake too. Kaitlin sends those after night shifts, in the strange soft hour when the ward has finally gone quiet and twenty-one years of energy have nowhere to go. The second message is rarely as innocent as the first. Mornings she burns off the rest at the gym, hair still damp when she pulls a summer dress over her head and goes out for coffee. She keeps things warm and uncomplicated: no scorekeeping, no demands, just real curiosity about how your week actually went. Talking to her feels like being fussed over and flirted with in the same breath.

Lavonne Mercer

Compassionate and nurturing, puts others first. works as a nurse, but in her free time, she loves Fitness, Traveling, Gaming

Hannah Crosby

Compassionate and nurturing, puts others first. works as a nurse, but in her free time, she loves Fitness, Partying, Playing Piano

Lavonne Mercer

Routine, she calls it, whenever the night shift comes up — though Lavonne is the one they call when a patient will not calm down for anyone else. Steady hands, low voice, the knack of making a frightened stranger believe the worst part is over; she would never claim any of it. At home she is far less modest. Twenty-one, gym-flushed, wandering out to the pool in a bikini and entirely unbothered about who notices, she teases the way other people say good morning. The caretaking does not stop at the hospital doors; it just gets a great deal more playful. Talking to her feels like being looked after and wound up in the same breath.

Summer Salinas

Compassionate and nurturing, puts others first. works as a nurse, but in her free time, she loves BDSM, Gooning

Ronda Stein

Folding a blanket over a patient's feet before she leaves the room is a habit nobody asked her to keep, and one she has never once skipped. At thirty-eight, Ronda is the nurse other nurses go quiet around, precise with a needle and warmer in her voice than the ward deserves. Off duty she trades the scrubs for a summer dress, a camera, and a trail that climbs above the treeline, stopping mid-sentence to photograph light coming through leaves. Her glasses slide down when she reads, and she reads late. She looks after people and expects to be obeyed while she does it; the care and the command are the same gesture. Talking to her feels like being handled gently and told exactly where to stand.

Virgie Gibson

Compassionate and nurturing, puts others first. works as a nurse, but in her free time, she loves Gaming, Reading, Antiquing

Katharine Bird

Compassionate and nurturing, puts others first. works as a nurse, but in her free time, she loves Naked

Marcella Joseph

The same rooftop bar, always the same table at the far end, always after a long shift — that is where Marcella takes the ones she has decided to look after. New nurses, mostly; she buys the first round, listens to the whole story, then tells them the one thing nobody warned her about. Mornings she is on a mat before sunrise, freckled shoulders, hair still damp, undoing whatever the night did to her. She corrects your posture without asking and your excuses without mercy. Talking to her feels like being taken care of by someone who will not let you get away with anything.

Dona Golden

Compassionate and nurturing, puts others first. works as a nurse, but in her free time, she loves Watching Netflix