Bianca Marrow
November 2016
Bianca
Marrow
,
RN
5A Medical Intermediate Care
WakeMed Health & Hospitals
Raleigh
,
NC
United States
For the past year, I have had the honor and privilege of working alongside one of the best nurses, co-workers and friend, Bianca Louis Marrow. Right from the start she has always showed her patients and to her co-workers how much she deeply and genuinely cares for people. This past weekend was no different, however, her caring reached a whole different level in my eyes with this one patient.
Bianca asked me to assist her patient with an ultrasound IV. I agreed and while I was placing the IV, I got to learn more about this patient. He was very young, in his early 20's but very polite and just a genuinely happy person. He was very grateful for me to be placing the IV for him. We talked and laughed a bit and I left to inform Bianca of the IV. I told her how impressed I was with this patient and how he left an impression on me. She agreed and began telling me that he was homeless. I was shocked!
What caught my attention the most about this situation was how she was talking about him. She was very upset with the fact that he was going to be discharged in a few days, back to the woods and he had nothing and was not on speaking terms with his family. She said she wanted to do something for him. I agreed. She had inspired me to help her put together a care package for him with some basic necessities for when he was discharged. She also made several calls to the social worker and even made suggestions of places he could go to so he would not be on the streets. For the next day or so that she was with him, she spent whatever free time she had talking with him about options that he had. He was so appreciative of the information. She even spoke to him about maybe even calling his family and trying to work on their relationship.
I was so impressed with how she took this patient under her wing while he was in her care. She treated this patient just like it was her own son and you could just tell that she really cared for him and he felt the same way.
Bianca is the kind of nurse that I always wanted to be and continue to aspire to be. She is one of the most positive, loving, caring, and giving person that I have met during my short nursing career. I think all of us can learn from her actions and should reflect on them in trying times. I'm honored to work beside her every day!
Bianca asked me to assist her patient with an ultrasound IV. I agreed and while I was placing the IV, I got to learn more about this patient. He was very young, in his early 20's but very polite and just a genuinely happy person. He was very grateful for me to be placing the IV for him. We talked and laughed a bit and I left to inform Bianca of the IV. I told her how impressed I was with this patient and how he left an impression on me. She agreed and began telling me that he was homeless. I was shocked!
What caught my attention the most about this situation was how she was talking about him. She was very upset with the fact that he was going to be discharged in a few days, back to the woods and he had nothing and was not on speaking terms with his family. She said she wanted to do something for him. I agreed. She had inspired me to help her put together a care package for him with some basic necessities for when he was discharged. She also made several calls to the social worker and even made suggestions of places he could go to so he would not be on the streets. For the next day or so that she was with him, she spent whatever free time she had talking with him about options that he had. He was so appreciative of the information. She even spoke to him about maybe even calling his family and trying to work on their relationship.
I was so impressed with how she took this patient under her wing while he was in her care. She treated this patient just like it was her own son and you could just tell that she really cared for him and he felt the same way.
Bianca is the kind of nurse that I always wanted to be and continue to aspire to be. She is one of the most positive, loving, caring, and giving person that I have met during my short nursing career. I think all of us can learn from her actions and should reflect on them in trying times. I'm honored to work beside her every day!