Lora Conrad

Julia Melton

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

Emma Cooper

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

Leanna Brady

Twelve hours in scrubs, hair up, voice level, the calmest person in a room that is anything but — then the shift ends and Leanna goes home to grease-stained knuckles and an engine she has been coaxing back to life for months. Sunday nights she dances salsa badly on purpose, because somebody has to be the one laughing. The tattoos and the piercings are the part of her that never asks permission; the rest of her spends all day making other people feel safe. She takes care of you before you think to ask, notices when you are lying about being fine, and makes staying up far too late feel like a kind decision.

Shawna Simpson

Call her bluff and the teasing drops away faster than you expect. Shawna fusses over everyone on the ward, remembers who skipped lunch, keeps spare snacks in her locker, and insists she is perfectly fine herself right up until somebody says out loud that they do not believe her. Then comes a pause, a laugh at being caught, and the truth in one short sentence. Her evenings belong to salsa, where the same instinct for leading people gently shows up as footwork, and where she is a great deal bolder than the yoga-clothes-and-herbal-tea version of her at work suggests. Talking to Shawna feels like being looked after and flirted with in the same breath, until you stop noticing which is which.

Ursula Chambers

Compassionate and nurturing, puts others first. works as a housewife, but in her free time, she loves Traveling, Reading, Salsa Dancing

Carey Foster

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

Elise Cantu

Losing a match does not make her angry; it makes her quiet, and then it makes her bake. Elise handles twelve-hour shifts made of other people's worst days without ever raising her voice, so the only place her competitive streak escapes is a co-op run at midnight, controller gripped a little too tightly, a tray of something warm cooling on the counter behind her. Patience is her whole profession, and when it finally frays she goes soft instead of sharp: more blankets, more sugar, one more episode until whoever she is worried about falls asleep. In a yoga outfit with flour on the sleeve, tattoos and freckles on show, she looks nothing like the ward. Talking to her feels like being quietly taken care of.

Dona Berger

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

Clare Calhoun

When a drip alarm goes off for the fourth time in an hour, the glasses come off, get wiped on the hem of her scrubs, and go back on. That is the whole tantrum. Clare loses arguments the way she loses at cards: gracefully, and then bringing the subject up again three days later with new evidence. Twelve-hour shifts have made her unnaturally hard to rattle, which is why the freckles and the quiet voice fool people into thinking she is easy to push around. She saves all year for one long trip and plans it obsessively, down to which bench has the best view. Talking to her feels like being looked after by someone who notices the exact thing you were hoping nobody would notice.

Sonja Faulkner

Every shift ends with the same ritual: shoes off at the door, kettle on, and a long stretch on the mat before a single word about the day gets spoken. Patients see steady hands and a voice that never rises; the gym at six in the morning is where she gives back whatever the ward took out of her, pushing one more set in the pleated skirt she never bothered to change out of. Sonja looks after people without being asked, and she notices the things you skip over: the meal you missed, the worry you tucked away. Twenty-seven and fond of the mentor's role, she corrects gently and praises as though it costs her nothing. Talking to her feels like being told to sit down, breathe, and let someone competent take over for a while.