Allison Eure
March 2022
Allison
Eure
,
MSN, RN
Labor and Delivery
Vidant Chowan
Edenton
,
NC
United States
Allison has come in from home at night, on weekends, and on holidays, to ensure her staffing and patient care were safe.
I nominated Allison Eure for The DAISY Award based on her compassion, loyalty, and knowledge of Vidant Chowan's Family Birthing Center. Allison is our unit's manager, however, the word manager does not begin to describe her. You see, Allison has been a great asset to this unit long before she was a manager. It is no surprise that once the manager position came available, our 20+ employees pushed for her to be the nurse to take on the role.
Allison's first few months, as well as the years to follow, have not been easy ones. Between staffing shortages right off the bat, and the introduction of the mutated virus, COVID-19, she has had an uphill climb that she crushes every day with grace and patience. I was a brand new nurse, straight out of school, when I was hired to work on our Family Birthing Unit. Though our unit sounds fun and adorable, it is honestly three units of unlimited possibilities of emergent situations. I thought I was going to rock and feed babies, never guessing I would be the one resuscitating newborns and delivering precipitous vaginal deliveries with no physician in sight; talk about my world being turned upside down!
Quite frankly, I didn't know my hand from my elbow when it came to our unit. Allison, as only a staff nurse at the time and with no benefit to herself, took me under her wing and willingly decided to train me. Not the "I'll show you around and make my extra dollar an hour" training, but "the kind that makes great nurses" training! This takes twice the effort as it does to just come to work to do your job and leave. In my opinion, she was and still is the most knowledgeable nurse on the floor. She can recall every policy, answer any and all questions, all while running circles around any staff nurse. Her work ethic doesn't stop there.
Allison is wonderful to her patients. She ensures their experience is everything the patient wanted (to the best of her ability); skin to skin initiation in the OR setting, use of SNS systems with mothers who want to breastfeed but who need to supplement, even physically holding infants to mother's breast so the infant can eat and the mother can rest. She ensures our patients have the safest care. She combs through most charts ensuring nothing was missed by what is sometimes an understaffed and very worked unit; not to point fingers or blame, but to help both the nurse and patient. She ensures policies are known and being used to ensure the safety of patient care.
As a manager, she also tries to meet every single patient that comes through our unit to ensure their experience has been everything they wanted for what should be the best days of their lives. She also keeps our providers straight and ensures they are up to date on policies and the latest data. It doesn't stop there. Allison is a manager that willingly staffs more often than not, with no other incentive than to increase unit morale and decrease staff overtime. She is a nurse that puts her unit and staff members before herself. She enforces safety, as well as nurse well-being. She actually listens to our concerns, as staff members, and acts on them. She ensures her nurses are off when they need to be and offers a helping hand whenever she can.
Allison has come in from home at night, on weekends, and on holidays, to ensure her staffing and patient care were safe. As a staff nurse of seven-plus years, I can honestly and proudly say, Allison is one of a kind. Not only are we lucky to have her as our manager, but the community is lucky to have her as a nurse. I would love to pick a particular nursing case to demonstrate how much she excels, however, there are too many. I can say, without a doubt, there are many mothers and infants alive today because of her; her knowledge, willingness to always learn, and willingness to teach. Allison is a wonderful nurse because she leads with a mindset of not expecting her staff to do anything she cannot do herself. Her selflessness to her patients and staff should not go unnoticed. In conclusion, I need to say, I am the nurse I am today because she chose to take the time to share her gift with me. My adult career, I owe to her.
Allison's first few months, as well as the years to follow, have not been easy ones. Between staffing shortages right off the bat, and the introduction of the mutated virus, COVID-19, she has had an uphill climb that she crushes every day with grace and patience. I was a brand new nurse, straight out of school, when I was hired to work on our Family Birthing Unit. Though our unit sounds fun and adorable, it is honestly three units of unlimited possibilities of emergent situations. I thought I was going to rock and feed babies, never guessing I would be the one resuscitating newborns and delivering precipitous vaginal deliveries with no physician in sight; talk about my world being turned upside down!
Quite frankly, I didn't know my hand from my elbow when it came to our unit. Allison, as only a staff nurse at the time and with no benefit to herself, took me under her wing and willingly decided to train me. Not the "I'll show you around and make my extra dollar an hour" training, but "the kind that makes great nurses" training! This takes twice the effort as it does to just come to work to do your job and leave. In my opinion, she was and still is the most knowledgeable nurse on the floor. She can recall every policy, answer any and all questions, all while running circles around any staff nurse. Her work ethic doesn't stop there.
Allison is wonderful to her patients. She ensures their experience is everything the patient wanted (to the best of her ability); skin to skin initiation in the OR setting, use of SNS systems with mothers who want to breastfeed but who need to supplement, even physically holding infants to mother's breast so the infant can eat and the mother can rest. She ensures our patients have the safest care. She combs through most charts ensuring nothing was missed by what is sometimes an understaffed and very worked unit; not to point fingers or blame, but to help both the nurse and patient. She ensures policies are known and being used to ensure the safety of patient care.
As a manager, she also tries to meet every single patient that comes through our unit to ensure their experience has been everything they wanted for what should be the best days of their lives. She also keeps our providers straight and ensures they are up to date on policies and the latest data. It doesn't stop there. Allison is a manager that willingly staffs more often than not, with no other incentive than to increase unit morale and decrease staff overtime. She is a nurse that puts her unit and staff members before herself. She enforces safety, as well as nurse well-being. She actually listens to our concerns, as staff members, and acts on them. She ensures her nurses are off when they need to be and offers a helping hand whenever she can.
Allison has come in from home at night, on weekends, and on holidays, to ensure her staffing and patient care were safe. As a staff nurse of seven-plus years, I can honestly and proudly say, Allison is one of a kind. Not only are we lucky to have her as our manager, but the community is lucky to have her as a nurse. I would love to pick a particular nursing case to demonstrate how much she excels, however, there are too many. I can say, without a doubt, there are many mothers and infants alive today because of her; her knowledge, willingness to always learn, and willingness to teach. Allison is a wonderful nurse because she leads with a mindset of not expecting her staff to do anything she cannot do herself. Her selflessness to her patients and staff should not go unnoticed. In conclusion, I need to say, I am the nurse I am today because she chose to take the time to share her gift with me. My adult career, I owe to her.