ABSTRACT
Nursing patients who have tuberculosis (TB) is an incredibly rewarding job. When we first meet our patients, many of them have been becoming progressively more ill over weeks if not months and are often quite miserable as a result. Some will have been seeing their general practitioner repeatedly and others will have been referred to a variety of specialists and will have undergone a host of investigations before the diagnosis was eventually made. Some patients will even have been given a different and often worse diagnosis, such as cancer. However, in most cases, by the end of a six-month course of anti-TB treatment, they have been fully cured [1] and their change in appearance and demeanour is often startling.
