Nurse And Patient Switch Roles 30 Years Later

Have you ever left work exhausted after a long day and wondered if you’re really making a difference in the world?

After 44 years as a nurse at Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s Froedtert Hospital, Lynn Bartos couldn’t help but look back on all she had done in her career. “I invested a lot of myself into being a really good nurse. And did it really make a difference?” Bartos says in the following interview from CBS’ On The Road series in which she explains how she got her answer.

Four decades of long, hard physical activity did a number on Bartos, who was being treated for Rheumatoid arthritis in 2015, when a new nurse named Nicole Krahn showed up to help her. Bartos couldn’t put her finger on why the young woman seemed so familiar. “Just something on her face and her eyes, I thought, I knew who she was,” Bartos revealed, saying that she still gets goosebumps when she thinks about the moment it hit her.

Nearly 30 years earlier, Bartos and Krahn, who was just a toddler at the time, appeared together in the photo below from Children’s Nurse Magazine.

Krahn had a life-threatening intestinal problem as a baby and Bartos spent years caring for her. Although Krahn says she doesn’t remember the nurse caring for her, she does remember always wanting to be a nurse herself and even though it might just be a coincidence, it’s exactly what Bartos wanted to hear.

Although Krahn says she doesn’t remember the nurse caring for her, she does remember always wanting to be a nurse herself and even though it might just be a coincidence, it’s exactly what Bartos wanted to hear.

“This is just what I needed.” she says in the following video. “It is definitely a gift, because now I know for 44 years, I made a difference in people’s lives.”

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Nurse And Patient Switch Roles 30 Years Later is an article from: LifeDaily