The steady hand at 3 a.m.

I trained thinking nursing was about procedures. Ten years in critical care taught me it's about attention — the relentless, unglamorous noticing that catches a bleed at 2 a.m. or a septic patient an hour before anyone else would have.

I've worked ICU through a pandemic surge, run triage in a monsoon-flooded ER, and precepted a dozen new grads into nurses who now catch things I taught them to see.

If your unit needs a nurse who is calm when the room isn't, meticulous with the details that keep patients safe, and genuinely kind on the twelfth hour of a night shift, my registration is active and my notice is thirty days.