Employees want their jobs to matter, but meaning at work can be hard to find
CHICAGO - Jennifer Ruiz holds her patient's trembling hand as she presses a stethoscope to the frail woman's chest and belly. She compliments the woman on her recently painted fingernails. She cheerfully asks how she's feeling, knowing she'll get no answer from the little curled body in the big hospital bed but for a penetrating stare.
Ruiz, a hospice nurse, finds her work deeply meaningful, in part for reasons that are obvious: "We get to be there for people during some of the most tragic and tough times in their lives," she said.
But even those who shepherd the dying and their families through
