Nancy Neal

Nurse Manager
William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital, 12 Green

First UTSW job: Working as a Labor and Delivery Scrub Technician.

Best part of my job: My team relationships.

Unusual memory: Having to push a bed carrying a resident along with a patient in labor by myself while I was 8 months pregnant. (The resident was holding the baby’s head, with birth imminent.) Everything turned out fine, but I can imagine how that looked! I think I may have taken out a couple of walls back at the former St. Paul University Hospital.

How co-workers describe me: Happy, fun to be around.

Recipe for success: Positivity for sure. I see the glass half-full.

What energizes me at work: My team and our patients.

I wish I were an instant expert at: Math. I have a mental block, and it would help me with the finance part of my job.

I’m really good at: Building teams.

Claim to fame: Raising three really good kids.

Hobby or passion: Gardening.

Surprising fact: Before I switched to Medical Surgical Manager, I was a Labor and Delivery Nurse and Manager for 20-plus years because I loved it so much after serving as an interim manager.