Making Work Visible

Certified Nurse Aide. Look past the Doctor or even the Registered Nurse whose titles held such high regard that as children we chose them so quickly when asked what would we become, to this job overlooked. Look to the CNA to see long work hours, a life lived paycheck to paycheck, a weakened physical body. Who aspires to become her? Who aspires to stay her? And yet within this structure, for her family she has provided opportunity, with her patients she has heard their stories, been present in their life and death and held their hand in each tomorrow.