Beep, click, slam. Then-newly hired nurse Kemi Reeves sat alone in her car, processing her first day of work. That day, she saw nurses managing very sick patients – patients who at smaller hospitals would be in intensive care units but were placed into her intermediate care unit at UCLA, she said. Read more...

Photo: Amy Castillo is pictured. The clinical nurse manager has been at UCLA since 2001 and works in the 6 West unit of Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, which specializes in post-vascular, orthopedic and plastic surgical care. (Andrew Diaz/Daily Bruin)