She told Bettany on a Monday morning.
"Thirty weeks," she said. "I'd like to transition the overnight cases now." She handed over the adjusted schedule she'd been preparing. "This is what I'm proposing. Hennen takes the late trauma intakes. I cover bay four through eight pm. After eight, Hennen leads."
Bettany took the document. Read it. Turned a page.
"You prepared this in advance," she said.
"Yes," Nara said.
"In detail," Bettany said.
"I know my schedule," Nara said. "I know what the transition requires. I documented it so it's not disruptive to the ward."
Bettany looked at the document.
Something in her expression — not the clipboard nod, something more considered. The specific quality Bettany had when she was receiving information that meant more than its surface suggested.
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