MIAMI – Barbara Williams makes the rounds day by day at the emergency room at Memorial Hospital Miramar.
The longtime worker is the emergency service nurse who oversees ensuring all goes nicely in the ER for each sufferers and workers.
Williams offers day by day with such divergent challenges, from ensuring all is sweet with sufferers’ insurance coverage points to what number of wheelchairs can be found.
“I have worked here since 1969, September 22nd,” she instructed CBS4 Photojournalist Doug Johnson.
That makes her the longest-serving worker in the hospital system – add to that the first woman of color to be a nurse leader in Memorial’s history.
“Memorial did open in 1953. It was segregated somewhat, the bathrooms, that type of thing. When I came to Memorial that was no longer,” says Williams. “When I first went to the Emergency Department there were not a lot of people that looked like me but the people there treated me very well.”
Over the years, Barbara went from being a $2 an hour worker, choosing up her nursing diploma, working in emergency rooms and spreading her philosophy that co-workers embrace.
“She has taught us a lot of not only are you going to give great quality of care, you are going to make sure the environment is top notch,” stated ER Nurse Letanya Moffett.
Lessons that Moffett will put to good use as she goes to substitute Williams.
Yes, Williams is ready to retire, time to go she says.
“I think it is time to pass the baton to someone else.”
Williams is known in the halls of the ER for at all times reminding workers “Never Cut Corners.” That philosophy has labored nicely over the years with the ER staffers who Williams regards as “her children.”
So, what’s she going to do after she departs the ER division? Williams instructed us she’s going to in all probability at all times be related to Memorial Hospital Miramar and is hoping to set up a basis to train younger ladies management expertise – one thing she is aware of loads about.
