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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nMcKinney naturally became the go-to person for so many people in the days that followed. Due to demand, she was taking on more and more shifts. It did not matter if it was Saturday or Sunday, morning or night; McKinney took an oath and was faithful to live up to her word. A lot was being asked of nurses and medical professionals during those first few months. However, one thing she always said to her team was, \u201cI would never ask you to do something I wouldn\u2019t do myself.\u201d And her staff knew that, without her even having to utter the first word.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In fact, McKinney\u2019s team has begun to follow their leader more and more by imitating her selflessness. One particular nurse on McKinney\u2019s team was on the floor working a day shift. She heard McKinney was having difficulty finding a nurse for the night shift. McKinney was going to do it herself, as she was in the habit of doing, when the nurse said, \u201cNo. Take my patients now. I will go home for a few hours and will be back at seven tonight to cover the shift.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although the last few years have caused some anticipated burnout, McKinney remains undoubtedly passionate about her role and is thankful to be a nurse. She shared, \u201cI like to think we are put where we are for a reason. Sometimes, when it may be really difficult, it\u2019s reassuring to know we are the exact person a patient needs at the time. Sometimes we have to take on wide shoulders, but it\u2019s all for a reason.\u201d Through many victories and defeats, McKinney and her team have grown significantly as individuals and as a unit. The development of their skills, in addition to all the stories of triumph, is what keeps McKinney pulling back into the hospital parking lot day after day. Her humility would probably call it \u201cjust another day at the office,\u201d when in reality, her selflessness has made a world of difference within the lives of so many in our very community. -GN <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When news of COVID-19 came to America, the land of the free and the home of the brave felt more like the land of the quarantined and the home of the terrified. Rightly so, life as we knew it was flipped upside down and coughing. \u201cAs a country whole in the healthcare field [before COVID-19], […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":13264,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature"],"yoast_head":"\n