I haven't worked in nursing in 20 years, but I do remember many of my patients, if not by name, then their faces and our conversations. Some of the "got to me," I must admit, but you sort of get philisophical about older people, as they've already had a good long life. (I used to love chatting with older folks - The stories they would tell!) It was the sick (and dying) kids that really hit me hard.