"About two years ago, I was a scrub nurse in a relatively busy operating room. We were notified very late in the day that three people involved in a serious car accident would be coming to the emergency room and at least two would need emergency surgery. Our charge nurse prepped my team of nurses and the surgeons were preparing as best as they could for what was to come. I began setting up two OR rooms with sterile tools so we were ready to go. I also informed my spouse that it would likely be a late night. Upon getting to the ER by ambulance, we immediately took two patients into the OR and I was on the case of the patient with a punctured lung, several fractured ribs, and some internal bleeding. After hours of surgery and the two patients heading to the ICU, we all breathed a sigh of relief for the effort we had put in that evening and the great outcomes for each patient. When each of the two best friends was released the following week, they came to our OR to personally thank us for our efforts that night."