John Hurley is a nurse of 42 years' experience in both adult and pediatric direct patient care. He has worked in medical/surgical units, trauma care, emergency departments and outpatient clinics in urban county hospitals, university medical centers and Native American Public Health Service Hospitals. More than 30 years after beginning his own nursing journey, John's expansive career and love of nursing led him to study the interior life of the nurse while earning a doctoral degree in nursing in 2014. Since that time, he has been a professor of nursing at the University of San Francisco. In all of his teaching John seeks to pass along to a new generation of nurses the essence and light of nursing gained from his decades of experience, his study and nearly half a century of pondering what matters most. This book is an extension of that goal and purpose. John is a husband, father and grandfather. He lives in California with his wife Christine.