It was an historically awful time to become a first year nurse.

I was this bright-eyed and bushy-tailed nurse, excited to help people, excited about working in the ICU.

The thing about working in the ICU that I really enjoyed compared to the ER is in the ER, you are just trying to keep people alive for the moment.

You're trying to stabilize, and then you send them off to whatever unit they go to, and you never really know what happens.

You're not really part of the healing process and getting to see people discharged home.

But when I went to the ICU, that was what I really enjoyed seeing is actually people Being a part of the interdisciplinary team that day after day, you can literally see the progression.

You bring people back from the brink of death and they are healing and improving and getting better and being discharged to lower level acuity of care and then eventually discharged home.

Let's talk about your decision to extern at Baker Hosteller, how that led to their job offer once you graduated.