Relationships are “the glue” that connects caregivers and patients at the James Cancer Hospital. In this episode, James nurse Amy Rettig describes the fundamentals and importance of relationship-based care(RBC). “It’s at the center of everything we do, it’s seeing patients as people,” she said. “It’s seeing them as people with their own lives and hopes and dreams. They’re not their disease.” This is the first episode in an on-going series that will highlight the important work of nurses, social workers and other members of the James caregiving team. Rettig is an advanced practice registered nurse (APRN), with a Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) and a Master of Arts in Lay Ministry (MALM). “In a very meaningful way we recognize that it takes a village to care for a cancer patient,” she said. In the course of a visit to the hospital, “a patient can interact with 20 to 30 of our team members, and it takes all of us. Every patient has a care team and all the members of the care team interact with each other that every patient gets the best-possible care.”