Brooke Johns is an emergency room nurse in Las Vegas Nevada who offers a unique and very humanizing service to her patients. She brushes and braids their hair on her days off.

Zulekha Nathoo from the USA TODAY franchise, Humankind shares Johns story with the team at 5 Things, including what got her started in doing this simple thing and why she keeps doing it. Nathoo shared the experience of Sierra Stein, one the many patients Johns has served. Stein was in the hospital during the pandemic because of COVID complications.

Stein said, "That physical touch and that interaction means so much when you are so helpless and so alone. You may not even look like you are in a really bad predicament but little things like that can mean so much and make you feel like you are home again."

Johns said she isn't a professional stylist but to her, that's not important. What matters is you just have to want to help.

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