Sarah Salvadore
January 2022
Sarah
Salvadore
,
RN, BSN, CCRN
Inpatient PACU
UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital
Aurora
,
CO
United States
Sarah has done more to save lives during this pandemic than I can even comprehend, and no collection of words can convey how lucky we are to have her.
Sarah is a "go to" nurse. You "go to" her with questions, to debrief after a difficult patient, with critical care questions, ACLS questions, needing a 16g in someone's thumb, helping to coordinate care for a patient that doesn't have a ride home. She is the first to "go to" pick up an extra call shift, a weekend shift, to work our new inpatient surge unit and work that as an overnight. She will "go to"help us in PreOp by setting up our bays while working in said inpatient surge unit. If we are having a difficult conversation with another provider, you know you can "go to" Sarah and she will advocate her heart out with professionalism and clarity. When you "go to" Sarah for anything, you get treated fairly, with kindness, a sometimes leave with a loaf of zucchini bread.
With compassion, humor, clinical expertise, and integrity - she has been triumphing during this pandemic for her patients. Without batting an eye, she seamlessly transitioned back to the ICU during the main Covid surge, working overnights and weekends outside of what her PreOp body was used to, to help care for their influx of patients and experienced ICU nursing shortage.
I imagine the transition to being back in the ICU was difficult for her and her family while homeschooling, but from the outside, she never let that show. After months when she finally came back to us, she didn't miss a beat. She is an expert IV starter, and often times when she leaves our bays the patients remark that that was the most comfortable IV placement they've ever experienced. Behind the scenes, she's working on our schedules, helping brainstorm capacity issue resolutions with our space being affected by the Tower 3 build, teaching ACLS classes, and a plethora that I can't even imagine because she is literally the RN version of an iceberg with so much greatness below the surface!
When Sarah is in charge, you know the day is going to go smoothly, and if not, and it's out of our control, at least we'll have someone to "go to" to make us laugh our way through it. We are so grateful to have a leader like Sarah in our department. She has done more to save lives during this pandemic than I can even comprehend, and no collection of words can convey how lucky we are to have her. She is the human embodiment of what it means to improve lives. If you want to be inspired, you "go to" Sarah!
With compassion, humor, clinical expertise, and integrity - she has been triumphing during this pandemic for her patients. Without batting an eye, she seamlessly transitioned back to the ICU during the main Covid surge, working overnights and weekends outside of what her PreOp body was used to, to help care for their influx of patients and experienced ICU nursing shortage.
I imagine the transition to being back in the ICU was difficult for her and her family while homeschooling, but from the outside, she never let that show. After months when she finally came back to us, she didn't miss a beat. She is an expert IV starter, and often times when she leaves our bays the patients remark that that was the most comfortable IV placement they've ever experienced. Behind the scenes, she's working on our schedules, helping brainstorm capacity issue resolutions with our space being affected by the Tower 3 build, teaching ACLS classes, and a plethora that I can't even imagine because she is literally the RN version of an iceberg with so much greatness below the surface!
When Sarah is in charge, you know the day is going to go smoothly, and if not, and it's out of our control, at least we'll have someone to "go to" to make us laugh our way through it. We are so grateful to have a leader like Sarah in our department. She has done more to save lives during this pandemic than I can even comprehend, and no collection of words can convey how lucky we are to have her. She is the human embodiment of what it means to improve lives. If you want to be inspired, you "go to" Sarah!