As a septic shock survivor, Graciela reminds us, "There are moments in our life who define who we are, that moment was when I coded and almost died of septic shock". Graciela has been a Perinatal nurse for 29 years. She has practiced most of her career as a Labor and Delivery nurse. In her early nursing career, she was an educator for University of Davis Medical Center, with an emphasis in cultural diversity in child bearing and child rearing practices of women. She worked for Woodland Memorial Hospital as community Lamaze instructor. Graciela has worked for the past 21 years at Kaiser Permanente South Sacramento hospital. She is currently a Staff IV RN. She is an advanced preceptor in Labor and Delivery and her specialty is in the OR working with mothers having Cesarean Sections. She also has worked as the Neonatal Resuscitation Program educator for the past 12 years. Graciela has a passion to educate the medical community about early recognition of maternal sepsis.