Kelli Welhaf is an outgoing, enthusiastic, clinically competent, and overall extremely compassionate student. Kelli is currently a third semester, senior nursing student and has maintained a 3.6 GPA. On top of all of this she is also an active member of the Florida State Cheerleading Team, cheering at every home football game, and many away games. I had the pleasure to have Kelli in her Acute & Chronic clinical rotation. One morning I assigned Kelli a young man who had been admitted with complications related to end stage AIDS. This young man was extremely confused, agitated, and non-compliant. This first week Kelli spent an inordinate amount of time talking and calming this agitated young man, encouraging him to take his medications, cleaning him, assisting and encouraging him to eat. During her interactions with this patient, she encountered ignorance and bias from some of his other care-takers. Comments and actions regarding this young man?s care were made and Kelli was dismayed and confused. She had been taught that AIDS and HIV precautions were the same as standard care. She witnessed nurses double gloving, gowning, and wearing a mask to insert an IV or administer a suppository. Based on her experiences she chose HIV/AIDS as her project to complete for the clinical. She wanted to educate her classmates on the proper way to care for these patients. Kelli?s compassion did not stop there; she requested to continue to care for this young man each week for the remainder of the experience. She needed a wider experience and I would assign her another patient and this young man. She cared for her other patients well, but she wanted to ensure that she continued to care for this young man at the end of his life and make his experiences as comfortable and normal as possible. His family was very grateful for her and the kindness and compassion she showed him. They loved to talk to her and the patient always responded well to her presence. She was able to get him to take his medications when no one else was, he would talk to her when he wouldn?t speak with anyone else, and he truly appreciated her company. Kelli displayed characteristics of nursing that are often forgotten; kindness, compassion, empathy, and dignity.