Nurses make the biggest difference in patient care, at least in Nancy Krippel’s experience. When Krippel, provost and vice president for academic affairs for Brenau University, was in the hospital during a long pregnancy, she most fondly remembered her nurse Rosemary, who went above and beyond her job description. Four women exceptional nurses — Deborah Robinson Bailey, Deborah Kay Huckaby, Mary Martin and Amelia Malcom — go that extra mile, too.