Being a Critical Care Nurse has it good days and its bad days. Being an Army Officer also has it good days and its bad days. So when we get to take a break from our workload to celebrate each other, it is a welcomed break. 
Today's celebration was the promotion of Laura Jeffrey from Captain to Major. Major Jeffrey is the Clinical Nurse Officer-In-Charge (Nurse Manager) of ICU-East at Madigan Army Medical Center. I had the opportunity to be deployed with her in 2009-2010 with the 47th Combat Support Hospital in Tikrit, Iraq. Since then I continue to be lucky to get to count her as a friend. Her husband Craig, a First Sergeant with the 2nd Infantry Division here at Joint Base Lewis McChord, is a great guy who I am constantly learning the ways of the Army from. And their daughter Brooke...let's just say "Ka-Kauw"! (A little iside joke.)
Today's celebration was the promotion of Laura Jeffrey from Captain to Major. Major Jeffrey is the Clinical Nurse Officer-In-Charge (Nurse Manager) of ICU-East at Madigan Army Medical Center. I had the opportunity to be deployed with her in 2009-2010 with the 47th Combat Support Hospital in Tikrit, Iraq. Since then I continue to be lucky to get to count her as a friend. Her husband Craig, a First Sergeant with the 2nd Infantry Division here at Joint Base Lewis McChord, is a great guy who I am constantly learning the ways of the Army from. And their daughter Brooke...let's just say "Ka-Kauw"! (A little iside joke.) At the promotion there was plenty of support from both our Department of Nursing Leadership, Staff Nurses from both Intensive Care Units, and a few of our Critical Care Physicians. Any opportunity we have to support each other continues to create that bond we have as members of the United States Army Healthcare Team. It is a great team to be on.
Congratulations Major Jeffrey!
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