Jordan Hwang, Assistant Director of Nursing and Advanced Practice Nurse at Singapore General Hospital, did not choose haematology — but the patients made him stay. One critically ill patient in his twenties, with multiple drainage tubes, asked Jordan upon his return from leave whether he had gotten a good rest. That moment of grace has never left him. Jordan has also helped redesign SGH's blood transfusion verification process, replacing paper-based checks with electronic verification and a safer two-nurse bedside workflow.

Wong Yoke Ping, Senior Nurse Manager at Changi General Hospital, came to palliative care through personal experience — caring for her late mother, moved by the nurses who supported their family. She made a mid-career switch into nursing at 36. Her e-learning programme, EPAN, has since trained over 2,500 nurses in empathy, communication, and symptom management. But it is the small moments that stay closest — an elderly patient quietly slipping origami cranes, folded by her grandchildren, into Yoke Ping's pocket as she was being turned in bed.