Alexandra Harman is my best friend, my protector, my sounding board, my voice of reason, my motivator, and my older sister. This is how I’ve thought of my sister for 29 years. In September of 2019, my sister told me she was going to get a new title in a few months. That new title was “Mommy!” This also meant I was going to be an Aunt for the first time! As excited as I was to meet my niece, I was terrified for my sister. My sister’s due date seemed like an eternity away, so I thought I would surely be able to get my nerves under control by then. I tend to overreact with anything medical, which is what led me to a nice desk job! (There are no needles there!) I also love my medical TV dramas like ER, House, and Grey’s Anatomy. At this point, I felt 80% excited and 20% scared. When March 2020 came into our lives, that percentage quickly shifted to 50/50. COVID-19 impacted all healthcare workers and the lives of their families. My sister is a CRNA and is an airway specialist. So, masks weren’t an option for her patients. I begged my sister to take leave from work and, at one point, I recall me begging her to quit. Alexandra loves her job and she wanted to be at the hospital, helping patients. She kept assuring me that she and the baby were going to be okay. As her due date approached, hospitals were narrowing down the number of people allowed to be there for births. For a moment in time, we thought she was going to be the only one allowed at the hospital. That restriction was lifted, so I felt some relief that her husband could be by her side. That’s when the news came that she was going to have to deliver at a different hospital, one that did not have a NICU. As a CRNA, Alexandra is used to working with NICU babies and knows how vital every second is to a newborn. At this point, Alexandra was informed that if she tested positive for COVID, the baby would be separated from her for 14 days after birth. I began to weep for my sister, who wasn’t allowed to be around her family, was working tirelessly, could barely move in her growing body, and was emotionally drained. Alexandra continued to work everyday until she was instructed to start her maternity leave. This was a week before a healthy, beautiful baby girl entered our lives. Alexandra enjoyed her first few months of motherhood at home. During a pandemic, one would assume that Alexandra would have dreaded leaving her baby to put her life at risk while at work. Although it was not easy to be away from her little girl, Alexandra was ready to get back into action, utilize her skill set, help her patients, and relieve her coworkers from additional duties. Over the next few months, Alexandra signed on for extra, undesirable shifts, assisted our elderly grandparents with medical needs that couldn't be met due to staffing shortages, and spent the little free time she had researching the vaccine progressions. In order for Alexandra and her husband to both work, their new baby needed to attend daycare and periodically rely on relatives for childcare. Unfortunately, the 8 month old baby contracted COVID and tested positive. The baby testing positive meant that their little family could not spend Christmas with any family. To make sure my sister could be at the hospital, my mother and I rotated babysitting prior to her testing positive. My mother, father, and I contracted COVID-19. Of course, my sister felt the unnecessary responsibility for this and was devastated. Thankfully, we all recovered. Alexandra received the second dose of the vaccine several days before my Grandfather suffered from a heart attack. She has been able to make the hour drive after her shifts at the hospital to check on him and my Grandmother who suffers from several mental and physical ailments. The story comes full circle because my sister took a new position at the hospital where she gave birth. Now, she is able to better relate with the patients because of her time spent there while giving birth. I am nominating my sister, Alexandra Harman, for this award because she exemplifies the best qualities of nurses everywhere. Not only does she show this inside the hospital, but in her personal life as well. I think it’s important to see the other side of the life of a nurse, to see what they are confronted with everyday, and the ability to be brave through it all. My sister still holds all of the titles that I listed at the beginning of this submission. However, I am confident to say that “Superhero” and “Forever Role Model” and "DAISY Nurse" have been added to the list.