Do Hard Things A Podcast With Gabe Lullo Ft. Melinda Yormick

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"If there's something I can do and should do, then I have a responsibility to do it. That is what I signed up for when I became a nurse." - Melinda Yormick Melinda became an OR nurse after watching her grandfather go through a heart surgery, a second surgery to remove a retained sponge, and a stroke that left him bedridden for a decade. She spent 14 years in the OR across seven health systems, then moved into leadership as a surgical service manager. Then a patient died after an elective procedure. The surgery went fine. When the airway tube came out, the patient's airway collapsed, and the team couldn't find the emergency airway cart. The code team couldn't find the patient either. In a…