Tara is amazing. She embodies the Standards of Excellence for sense of ownership, positive attitude, commitment to coworkers, and compassion. She is our weekend package charge nurse and is extremely well respected by our entire interdisciplinary team. She is often cited by the therapists, nurses, patient care techs, and house supervisors as someone they can count on, "the glue that holds it all together on the weekends" and someone who has such as positive attitude. She sees the big picture. She will see a patient need and meet it.

We didn't have any pediatric pull ups for a child with a spinal cord injury. To maintain the patient's dignity, Tara went out to Walmart and purchased a package of them. She has sewn adaptive equipment for a patient with special needs, bringing in her sewing machine and taking care of the issue. Her coworkers frequently recognize her as someone who will jump in and help them. She is selfless in her work. I recognize that she has a very busy workload and she will pretend she has all the time in the world to help her coworkers, answer lights, help with patient showers and manage a multitude of questions.

A therapist recently told me, "Tara Weir is just amazing as I am sure you already know. Her presence on the weekends is such a benefit to all staff and patients. I love her outside the box thinking and her ability to be a team player. She is always willing to help staff, doctors, patients, and their family members. It amazes me how she mans the desk but also does so much on the floor at the same time. We are so lucky to have her." I would agree wholeheartedly.