Angie Taylor is an amazing, brilliant, caring and extraordinary nursing professional who has been a part of Beacon Health System for over 20 years. She is a positive, team player who was a travel nurse for many years before choosing to stay here at Memorial because she loves it here. She has shared her vast clinical knowledge in several different roles, including ICU RN & Night Charge Nurse, a very valuable and highly sought after Float Resource Team member and, most recently, as a member of the Vascular Access Team. Angie's amazing ability to quickly and efficiently place PICC lines while gaining the trust and respect of her patients is legendary, along with her incredible skill at putting IV's in patients that even doctors have been unable to get.
Even though her clinical skills are legendary, providing compassionate nursing care to each and every one of her patients is what Angie does best. Having a PICC line placed can be very upsetting and confusing to some patients. Angie received an order to place a PICC line on a young female 9 south patient with Down's Syndrome, who was very scared and anxious about having a PICC line placed. Angie took the time to sit and talk with her, teaching her and reassuring her about the procedure. The patient calmed down a little but got more anxious as the procedure started even with Angie's frequent reassurance so Angie asked the patient what helped her feel calm. The patient said "Singing songs". Then Angie asked "What song do you like to sing?" and the patient replied "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" but the patient didn't want to sing alone so Angie and her patient sang "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star". The patient became much more calm and relaxed. She wanted to sing more songs. So soon Angie and her patient sang every nursery rhyme and children's song they could think of. However, they ran out of songs near the end of the procedure but then Angie asked her if she liked to sing Christmas songs to which the patient replied "Oh, yes!" So together they sang Christmas songs until the PICC line was successfully placed. When Angie left the room of her smiling, relaxed and happy patient, she was greeted with applause by the 9 south staff who had come to listen to the impromptu "concert"!