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Due to the novelty of COVID‐19 and its abrupt appearance across the world, the unknowns in managing these patients and in adequately protecting our health care workforce led to an abundance of caution. To protect supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE), hospitals around the world created COVID containment units, where staff would fully don PPE and enter a contained space where care was provided without doffing between patients, just one example of ensuring safe care for patients and staff. Multiple stakeholders were engaged in creating a COVID unit where all staff can be assured of their own health safety, arrange layout and workflows, and manage PPE equipment—for example, infection prevention, physicians, pharmacy, respiratory therapy, phlebotomy, patient transport, environmental services, nutrition food services, and supply chain management. To ensure input from all roles was equally provided, nurse leaders of COVID units facilitated good communication, fostering strong relationships among stakeholders (AONL, 2021). Such behaviors are core to a culture of safety.