March 2015
Anna
Raines
,
RN
ICU
CHI Health Bergan Mercy
Omaha
,
NE
United States

 

 

 

Patient MET call from 6 East for respiratory distress. Patient intubated immediately upon arrival to unit, patient then coded. Anna sat with the patient's wife for over an hour during events. Patient's wife expressed extreme gratitude for Anna's patience and willingness to sit with her and explain what was going on. Per patient's wife

"I have never had a nurse so compassionate and kind to me, I know he wasn't her patient and she had other things to do, but she never made me feel rushed or a pain."