Jubilant

Nothing lights me up like teaching skills to someone who's eager to learn them. Yesterday in the sim lab I spent three hours with the wife of a paraplegic.  She needed to learn how to suction his new tracheostomy and manage his ventilator, but what she really needed was someone to listen to her jeramiad against the hospital and decode the hospitalspeak that was drowning her.  She left jubilant for the first time in months, confident that she understood the whats & whys and had the strength to handle this new burden.  It's impossible not to share in her joy and be grateful for the years of slogging through training and work that brought me to this job, where I can pay it forward!