Critical Hours - Issue #1 - Scope Creep Press
Description
Stories from St. Vincent's: competence, quiet costs, small wins. A tea-break collection from St. Vincent's Medical Center-nine grounded stories that understand the day you just had. ER triage under pressure, family meetings in hallways, supply routes that save minutes, and audits that finally see context. These aren't grand speeches; they're steady hands, kind routes, and small, honest wins in the ER.
Meet the people who keep the place running when dashboards don't: Jack Donovan (rabbit, ER charge nurse) protecting human judgment at triage; Maria Engel (deer, social work nurse) steering impossible discharges with grace; DeShawn Adeyemi (hare, float nurse) exposing assignment bias; Lisa Patel (rabbit, charge nurse) tracing missing equipment; and Sarah Chen (mouse, staff nurse) charting so the next shift isn't blind.
Scope Creep Press lives in the North Midwest's low-key dystopia-competent workers navigating failing systems with dignity and occasional dark humor. Critical Hours is your doorway to that wider world: interconnected institutions, recurring characters, and small acts of resistance that add up.
