At Anna Jaques Hospital, Registered Nurses play a pivotal role in delivering high quality patient centered care. Nurses are coordinators and frontline providers of compassionate patient care. They are also patient advocates, communicators, collaborators, and patient/family educators. Nearly half of the nurses at Anna Jaques Hospital have worked at the hospital over ten years. The hospital considers them dedicated professionals who strive to achieve excellence in professional practice while treating patients in a caring, personal way. Anna Jaques Hospital nurses exemplify the uniqueness of providing community based nursing combined with the latest technological advances as they care for patients who are often friends and neighbors and in some instances generations of the same family.