There are so many BIG things that go on at Cincinnati Children's—big discoveries, big initiatives, big buildings.... It's easy to forget that a "big" part of what makes our institution great are the little things that happen every day.

Take our nurses, for instance. We celebrate them in a special way this month, and so we're featuring stories about a few of them in this issue. They provide life-altering services, like helping patients manage their pain, coordinating insurance authorizations (a different kind of pain!) and recognizing when a patient is declining, then intervening before a code has to be called.

Read about staff in Hematology/Oncology who collected sauce packets and other items for a colleague's son stationed in Iraq. Their care packages have greatly enhanced mealtime for our troops.