Prison inmates. Burn victims. Terminally ill children. These are just a few of the types of patients Ilene Wiggins, RN, has treated during her career as a nurse in Baltimore. Caring for these patients can be emotionally taxing, but Wiggins says she felt it was her calling.

“I felt I had a gift for making people feel better, not with medication or task, but with caring, compassion and honesty,” Wiggins says. “To make someone smile on what may be one of the worst days of their lives is an accomplishment.”

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