In Episode 3 of RN: EN ROUTE, Erin takes listeners inside a routine wound care visit that becomes a deeply human story about loneliness, connection, boundaries, and discharge.

When a patient begins setting out a second cup of coffee before each visit, the nurse realizes she has become more than the person changing the dressing — she has become part of the patient’s week.

The One With the Second Cup explores the quiet emotional weight of home health nursing, and why healing the body does not always mean the patient is whole.

Real stories. Real nursing. Somewhere between patients.

The chart said complicated. The numbers said high-risk. The history said this probably wouldn’t go the way anyone hoped. But the patient had a goal — and he proved every assumption wrong. In this episode of RN: EN ROUTE, a diabetic Start of Care becomes a story about honesty, education, second chances, and the home-health moment that changed everything

Think home health is just blood pressures, wound care, and knocking on doors? Yeah. No. Not exactly. In Episode 1 of RN: EN ROUTE, Erin takes you behind the front door and into the real world of home health nursing—the mobile office, the messy med lists, the Medicare maze, the unpredictable homes, and the moments that make you sit in your car thinking, “What just happened?