I don't think we should ask her about the artifacts/lore. Sure, she might not know about the gauntlet, but she reports to the doctor. I don't fancy having him know of it, and a question might just be all it takes to tip him off.
Edit: How about we offer the nurse a 50% share for helping us to bring our chest(of which we've lost the key so it's no longer useful for us) to the brewstry so we can sell it? I mean, Nerin seems to care only about the value of his bed and we can't use it for storage. We might as well make a few bucks of it now we have the opportunity.
Edit2: The window will probably yield more urists and be easier to carry but it'll look strange if we smash it in front of the nurse.
(It is a most likely a gem window since it's clearly not green glass, and anything above that material value is too expensive to be put into such a cheap room as this one. Going by color, I'm guessing this window was made out of morion.)
Edit3: The nurse was able to carry us back in the hospital, so she should have no trouble carrying her half of the chest.
Edit4: Maybe there's a big featherwood block in this chest, with a hole that precisely fits an important item(State secrets? Artifacts? The secrets of life and death? Hey, there must be some reason why 'our' room is out of use). It's probably better to just leave it closed and sell it, though.
Edit5: I wonder how much we can pawn off that sign for.
Edit6: Did Asscrack take his sock with him? If he didn't, we could pretend it's ours.
Edit7: Let's take a quick glance through the crack before we initiate futher converstation. Asscrack needn't know anything about us.
Edit8: Since the warden doesn't want competition within an industry, this fort probably won't have multiple brands of masonry. Should we find this is the case after consulting people in the brewstry, we could probably make a very effective skeleton key, if we find one. Antotheredit: Keep in mind that a skeleton key can lock doors just as well as opening them. It'll be a great boon if we get the mayor's men after us again.