Tonight I headed to the ER instead of home, as I’d heard things were popping and I wanted to check on the staff. Sure enough, the stress was palpable when I arrived. Every bay was full, with people waiting in the lobby and the parking lot.
Now, I am not an ER nurse. I have never been an ER nurse. I do not know how to be an ER nurse. But I do know how to find the person everyone else is looking to for answers, and I do know how to offer to help. That’s exactly what I did.
I spent the next two hours wiping down rooms once they were empty, changing linens and making beds ready for the next patient. That was all the team needed from me. Eventually, my husband and kids picked me up, and we stuffed ourselves outside of an Indian food truck.
I share this not to brag, but to remind myself for the future — leadership is not easy, and it never comes without cost… but it is often quite simple.
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