Throughout the past semester, I have had the privilege to work with Sue Sheridan in the post-anesthesia care unit(PACU) for my leadership rotation at MidMichigan medical center in Midland. The PACU was very hard to observe patterns of leadership in because every nurse almost worked independently with no real charge nurse on the unit. They all basically determined who was taking a patient based mostly on the time they came in and by simply volunteering to take a patient as they were wheeled through the OR/ PACU doors. With this being said I did observe some leadership trends relating to the OR manager and the PACU nurses. The purpose of this paper is to break down and closely observe the leadership styles of the nurses and myself when it comes
