Kelly joined Shelbyville Hospital in January 2020 as the Director of Inpatient Nursing. She knew one of our goals for the facility was to grow by providing increased services to our community and specifically reopening our ICU level of care. Little did she know (or any of the rest of us) how COVID19 would impact us only 2 months later. Initially during the pandemic, without our ICU, almost all of our COVID patients were transferred to our downtown campus. With low census, Kelly began the planning of how to move our med-surg unit into a mixed acuity model and transitioning TCU into ICU. All of this while coordinating the screening tables at all entrances. Oh yes, we opened a drive-thru vaccine clinic on site. Kelly was part of the team that got the vaccine into the community at a local church and part of the team that went to one of our local nursing homes to swab all staff and residents. A couple of months into the intensity of COVID19 in our community, UofL Health, as a system, planned appreciation walks at all our facilities. Kelly again jumped in to invite a local dance group to make posters and cheer our team on as they entered and exited on the red carpet. Then in June of 2021, all of the pieces of the puzzle were in place and we officially cut the ribbon and opened our ICU. Within a couple of hours, we had our first patient and have been going strong since then. The next wave of the pandemic started about the same time – now that we had ICU we kept more patients. When the patient load tripled in a week- Kelly rolled up her sleeves and worked wherever needed and whenever needed. For several days she went home to get a nap and come back to work the night shift. During all the stress, both physical and emotional, it was the dedication of our Nursing Directors that kept the team afloat. When we had a snow storm with several employees spending the night, Kelly found a YouTube video to make swans out of towels to put in the rooms where staff were sleeping. It is the little, thoughtful things that have made such an impact during this year. I am honored to be able to recognize Kelly Nolan as a DAISY Nurse Leader.