Angie Thompson
Angie has been a nurse with Northwest Hospital for two years. She started just out of nursing school after a career as an EMT. She shows nursing skills well beyond her two years experience. She continues to educate herself and is currently in school for an advanced nursing degree. I have seen her, not only be an advocate for her patients, but for other patients that are not her direct responsibility. She takes time to answer questions, has excellent customer service skills, and her clinical expertise continues to amaze me. This winter we have been extraordinarily busy. During one very busy night, Angie triaged a pediatric patient who had experiened a first time seizure. Through a difficult language barrier, she soon assessed that not just this small baby but a five year old in the same family group had also experienced a seizure. Angie had the forethought to know that these two incidents were related and proceeded, once again through a heavy language barrier, to identify that the family had been grilling indoors. She then was able to admit the entire family, 13 in all, to the unit, have CO levels drawn, placed them on high flow oxygen, and then had 11 family members transferred to Virginia Mason to the hyperbaric chamber. In one night she saved the lives of 11 people. She put the ambulances on standby for transport and THEN called the fire department to clear out the apartment building to see if any other persons had symptoms of Carbon Monoxide poisoning. I cannot emphasize the height of knowledge, patience and skill it took to deliver this level of care. To save lives and prevent permanent injury is what Angie does. She showed herself to be the very example of caring commitment and skill that is Northwest Hospital. I am very proud to work with her and she deserves to be a DAISY!
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