Ginger Copeland
August 2021
Ginger
Copeland
,
RN
Home Health
Good Samaritan Society
Fort Worth
,
TX
United States
Ginger has been very generous with her time, her compassion, and her willingness to help in any way.
I met Ginger 3 years ago when I started work at ARC. She took great care of her patients. When I saw any of her patients, they always wanted to know where she was and if she was okay. They talked about how good she was, how informative she was about their disease processes and their medications, giving tips about bettering their health, and very much in general how well she treated her them. I got to find that out firsthand over the past year. By this time she was DON.
I developed some health issues that we’re going to require major surgery. She went with me to my doctor’s visits when she could and asked questions if necessary because at times I was having a hard time comprehending and dealing with it all. My surgery was rescheduled 3 times due to COVID. When I couldn’t bear it any longer, my surgery was finally scheduled for September. I had an endarterectomy and blockage at my renal artery-which is where the blockage was. She sat with me when I was in ICU for 6 days and another 5 days on the med-surg floor. She sat patiently with me through everything; recovery and complete loss of kidney function, asking questions I didn’t think of, and she and her husband went out of their way to bring me home, and getting established at a renal center near where I live, listening to me whine (and to be honest, I’m embarrassed because I’m not a whiner), she made some wonderful soups for me.
Did I mention that she also fed me the night before my surgery and spent the night in her home and she took me to the hospital at 6 am and waited with me and made me laugh so I wouldn’t be so anxious about what was going to happen? Due to Covid, we don’t see each other much but we still text/talk and she cares so very much. She worries about what I’m going through and I’m not ashamed to say, she listens still to my whining-it’s not as bad as it was post-surgery, and she is a great sounding board for when I have difficult decisions to make. She has been very generous with her time, her compassion, and her willingness to help in any way.
When Ginger left bedside care for home health I know hospitals lost a great nurse. She does QA from home now after working in the field, still for the same company, and she is awesome at that just like everything else she does. She is a patient and kind teacher/educator especially with the computer program we have (NetSmart). I believe she is the epitome of a nurse. She is kind, caring, compassionate, empathetic, keeps up on the latest in patient care.
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Ginger currently works at Good Samaritan, however she was also a charge nurse in the ICU at Denton Regional Hospital for eight years. Cardiology being her specialty, she has worked closely with many doctors at offices such as Denton Heart Group. She has been a nurse for 20 plus years. Ginger has spent two decades caring for patients and their families as well as worked with doctors, other nurses, and coached many future nurses. She would go home to care for her three children, with their own medical needs. Ginger often says her children are the reason she became a nurse, even though she didn’t know at the time how much they’d need her.
Ginger is a nurse who has never had a day off. Whether it was at the hospital, the patients home, or the doctors’ office she has cared for a patient. She has cared for her children and husband at her home, and her friends and distant family members at the family reunion or grocery store. There’s been days when she got home from the hospital, only for her daughter to have a seizure and have to return. It takes a special person to be a nurse, and an even more special to person to never have a day off.
I developed some health issues that we’re going to require major surgery. She went with me to my doctor’s visits when she could and asked questions if necessary because at times I was having a hard time comprehending and dealing with it all. My surgery was rescheduled 3 times due to COVID. When I couldn’t bear it any longer, my surgery was finally scheduled for September. I had an endarterectomy and blockage at my renal artery-which is where the blockage was. She sat with me when I was in ICU for 6 days and another 5 days on the med-surg floor. She sat patiently with me through everything; recovery and complete loss of kidney function, asking questions I didn’t think of, and she and her husband went out of their way to bring me home, and getting established at a renal center near where I live, listening to me whine (and to be honest, I’m embarrassed because I’m not a whiner), she made some wonderful soups for me.
Did I mention that she also fed me the night before my surgery and spent the night in her home and she took me to the hospital at 6 am and waited with me and made me laugh so I wouldn’t be so anxious about what was going to happen? Due to Covid, we don’t see each other much but we still text/talk and she cares so very much. She worries about what I’m going through and I’m not ashamed to say, she listens still to my whining-it’s not as bad as it was post-surgery, and she is a great sounding board for when I have difficult decisions to make. She has been very generous with her time, her compassion, and her willingness to help in any way.
When Ginger left bedside care for home health I know hospitals lost a great nurse. She does QA from home now after working in the field, still for the same company, and she is awesome at that just like everything else she does. She is a patient and kind teacher/educator especially with the computer program we have (NetSmart). I believe she is the epitome of a nurse. She is kind, caring, compassionate, empathetic, keeps up on the latest in patient care.
***
Ginger currently works at Good Samaritan, however she was also a charge nurse in the ICU at Denton Regional Hospital for eight years. Cardiology being her specialty, she has worked closely with many doctors at offices such as Denton Heart Group. She has been a nurse for 20 plus years. Ginger has spent two decades caring for patients and their families as well as worked with doctors, other nurses, and coached many future nurses. She would go home to care for her three children, with their own medical needs. Ginger often says her children are the reason she became a nurse, even though she didn’t know at the time how much they’d need her.
Ginger is a nurse who has never had a day off. Whether it was at the hospital, the patients home, or the doctors’ office she has cared for a patient. She has cared for her children and husband at her home, and her friends and distant family members at the family reunion or grocery store. There’s been days when she got home from the hospital, only for her daughter to have a seizure and have to return. It takes a special person to be a nurse, and an even more special to person to never have a day off.