On this month's cover, a nurse provides care to a patient at Clearview Cancer Institute in Huntsville, Alabama. The photo was chosen as the third-place winner of AJN's 2015 Faces of Caring: Nurses at Work contest, in which readers around the world entered their candid photos of nurses on the job.
Photographer Kim Swift shot the photo while shadowing her sister, a nurse, for a day. Swift sought to capture what she calls "the trust factor" between patients and nurses: "When people are hurting, when they're uncertain, when they're walking through hard times, it's always nurses that [they] reach out to and grab hold of," she says. She found a prime example of that relationship-and snapped the winning photo-when she noticed the way one patient looked at her nurse as he explained an aspect of her cancer treatment. "I thought, 'There it is. There's the trust that patients draw from their nurses.'"
To read the first in a series of AJN articles on cancer survivorship from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, see "Adverse Late and Long-Term Treatment Effects in Adult Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Survivors."-Diane Szulecki, associate editor