Gina Marinelli
July 2021
Gina
Marinelli
,
BSN, RN
6 South
Brigham & Women's Faulkner Hospital
Boston
,
MA
United States
Gina buys her favorite foods and brings them in.
Both of these nurses have been going above and beyond for one of our patients. The patient has been on 6 South for nearly a year. She has encountered many physical and emotional challenges along with complicated discharge planning needs, her care plan is one obstacle after another. Although she has one son, she is basically alone. She is everyone's patient, as we all know her and take care of her. Gina and Emily have adapted her as family.
Gina buys her favorite foods and brings them in. She finds and plays her favorite music on the iPad. She makes pictures and signs and hangs them all over her room. She reads the bible to her and takes her downstairs to the meditation room. She makes sure Spiritual Care Services comes up to see her. Gina is an angel. It is amazing to me to see how one person's actions can really affect another's life.
Emily, who is in the Float Pool, makes time to see her whenever she is working. She too will bring things in for her, take her to the chapel and the gift shop, and take her for a ride in the wheelchair. She will get her special things to eat. She will sing to her and read to her. One day when I was working, Emily was working on another floor that day and was done at 3:30 pm, she then came and sat with our patient for two hours, spending time with her.
Recently it was her birthday, Gina brought in cards for everyone to sign, a big cake, and brought her lunch. Emily was FaceTiming her as well. Both treat her like a queen and make her feel so important. Most of all, they both make her feel so loved and they tell her every time they are here. They show her love and respect, without these two, she would be alone and scared. When you witness this kind of care all the time, it makes other staff step up a bit as well. I know I feel proud to work on 6 South because of the true caring and humanitarianism, this is who they are.
Gina buys her favorite foods and brings them in. She finds and plays her favorite music on the iPad. She makes pictures and signs and hangs them all over her room. She reads the bible to her and takes her downstairs to the meditation room. She makes sure Spiritual Care Services comes up to see her. Gina is an angel. It is amazing to me to see how one person's actions can really affect another's life.
Emily, who is in the Float Pool, makes time to see her whenever she is working. She too will bring things in for her, take her to the chapel and the gift shop, and take her for a ride in the wheelchair. She will get her special things to eat. She will sing to her and read to her. One day when I was working, Emily was working on another floor that day and was done at 3:30 pm, she then came and sat with our patient for two hours, spending time with her.
Recently it was her birthday, Gina brought in cards for everyone to sign, a big cake, and brought her lunch. Emily was FaceTiming her as well. Both treat her like a queen and make her feel so important. Most of all, they both make her feel so loved and they tell her every time they are here. They show her love and respect, without these two, she would be alone and scared. When you witness this kind of care all the time, it makes other staff step up a bit as well. I know I feel proud to work on 6 South because of the true caring and humanitarianism, this is who they are.