My husband was admitted to CarolinaEast three times in one month. It was a very puzzling situation but we all knew that he had a heart condition. He was getting progressively worse, breathing hard and so weak he couldn’t walk across the room. The third time when we were admitted we met Lexi. She was confident and obviously competent. We were very surprised when we learned my husband had to move to the ICU to get additional lines and monitoring she could move with him as his nurse for the night! I cannot tell you how comforting it was to have Lexi going along with him and not have to explain for the hundredth time what was going on with my husband. I didn’t feel like I had to advocate every single second because of being in a new situation where they don’t know his history and don’t know you. The next day he had a cardiac cath which showed he had complete aortic insufficiency with a wide open aortic valve. The good news was we were told he qualified for the TAVR procedure and would be moved up to go ahead the next day. When my husband was prepared for the surgery our nurse told us she called report to Lexi and she said I could come down and wait with him for the surgery. I cannot tell you how excited that made me feel! I said “Lexi? Our Lexi?!” They said “yes.” Previously I had asked Lexi why she was always going to all these different units and she said it was something new where they were trying to train more nurses to be able to go to critical care areas with patients. I can’t tell you how much I feel that is an absolutely fabulous idea. I am now 70 years old, but in the past, I was an ER, trauma, and mobile intensive care nurse for 20 years. I know how terrifying it was when you are trained for one unit and asked to float to another. Now that I’m on the patient/loved one side of things I see such value in that! Lexi made everything look so smooth and easy and I felt like I had family there. She knew my husband and she knew me and shared his status with me freely. It made me feel so much more comfortable. I think Lexi is a DAISY Nurse for being able to float across acute care areas making it look like it was absolutely nothing but meaning the world to us as patient and wife!