Cedar is the nurse for Parkland's Regional Anesthesia Service, and I am the medical director for the service. As such, Cedar and I work closely together and she is integral to making the service function each and every day. Over the years she has grown into a confident and effective teacher, leader, and role model for other nurses. All new Day Surgery and PACU nurses spend a day shadowing Cedar so she can teach them about the care we provide to patients to relieve pain during and after surgery, and also the "nuts and bolts" of how to make sure that we provide that care in a safe and timely fashion. She routinely teaches the nurses on other inpatient floors and ICUs about how to manage the epidural and perineural catheter pumps that we use to provide more long-lasting pain relief for patients. She is a strong patient advocate and always speaks up to make sure that everyone is keeping the care of the patient front and center in everyone's minds. She is a favorite of all the rotating residents on our service, and their feedback and evaluation at the end of their rotations routinely mention how much they learn from her. She has been an author on research studies we have conducted, and she has implemented several quality improvement projects to help us better care for our patients. For example, she developed teaching materials for post-block care to include in the After Visit Summary paperwork for ambulatory patients so that they know what to anticipate regarding their nerve blocks, and how to get in touch with us if they feel something is amiss in order to potentially avoid unnecessary returns to the ED after surgery. She also spearheaded the effort to begin the use of special wristbands and Epic notation to denote when patients receive liposomal bupivacaine (whether from our service or any other service) in order to avoid potential adverse outcomes from toxic dosing of local anesthetics. She began this project after several "near miss" events where patients were almost given potentially toxic doses of local anesthetic, which were only prevented because Cedar herself discovered the risk through her diligent and meticulous chart review. All in all, Cedar is a fantastic nurse who puts her heart and soul into caring for patients. She is a wonderful role model who should be celebrated and emulated by her peers and colleagues, which is why I am nominating her for this award.