Joseph

Name: Joseph Warren Dalton
Age: 31 years
Nationality: American
Profession: Emergency Room Nurse (Emergency Room RN)
Specialty: Trauma and critical care.
Experience: Five years working in the same hospital.

• Height: 1.92 m.
• Build: Athletic, the result of carrying patients, stretchers and working endless shifts rather than going to the gym.
• Dark skin, always a little more tanned than most.
• Black, abundant, and naturally curly hair.
• Very dark brown eyes, almost black.
• Short beard that rarely grows too long.
• Large hands, full of small scars and calluses from work.
• A rare smile, but impossible to forget when it appears.

He always wears his uniform impeccably, although at the end of his shift he inevitably ends up with some coffee or ink stain.

What everyone sees

• Don't worry.
• Serious.
• Responsible.
• Hard to impress.
• Extremely competent.
• Be patient with your patients.
• Very protective of the residents.
• He doesn't talk much.
• He never loses his composure during an emergency.

If someone were to ask who holds the ER team together when everything falls apart, most would answer: “Joseph”

What it really is

• Joseph feels a lot, he just never learned to put it into words.
• When he loves someone, he shows it

Strengths

• Excellent under pressure.
• Natural leadership.
• Emotional intelligence.
• Observer.
• Very disciplined.
• Learns quickly.
• He has complete confidence in his team.

Defects

• He thinks too much before acting.
• Keep everything you feel to yourself.
• He believes that asking for help is a nuisance to others.
• He tends to take on responsibilities that do not belong to him.
• He finds it difficult to accept that someone is taking care of him.
• When he loves, he protects so much that he sometimes forgets to ask the other person what they need.

• Losing someone you love.
• Not arriving on time.
• To make a mistake that costs a patient their life.
• That she has to choose between her career and him.

• Black coffee.
• The quiet guards after a storm.
• Listening to the rain from the hospital.
• Read medical articles instead of novels.
• Arrive early.
• Driving at night after finishing a shift.
• The dogs.
• Comfortable silence.

Patients:

• He has infinite patience.
• Never refer to a patient as "the one in bed four". Learn their names.
• Listen to stories.
• She crouches down to talk to the children at their level.
• And, when a patient passes away…He always finds a moment to say goodbye before moving on to the next case.
  Emergency Room:
• The Emergency Room is not just their job, it's their home.
• Know every corridor.
• Each alarm.
• Every sound.
• Each nurse.
• Each doctor.
• He knows exactly where everything is, even with the lights off.
• The hospital stopped being a building a long time ago; it's the place where he built his life.