Jackie is one of the finest RN's I have had the pleasure of working with. She recently came back to nights on 3 North and I am thrilled to have her working on our team.

Jackie's exemplary clinical skills and compassion were on display the other night when a 90 year old woman arrived on our unit. The woman, who was on Coumadin, had fallen several days prior and had a large hematoma on her upper chest wall. On arrival, she was nauseous, her BP was alarmingly low as were her platelets and hemoglobin. Jackie went right to work.

First she made sure that her patient was comfortable and felt safe. Next, she gathered her resources and went about trying to get the orders she needed to rapidly provide the appropriate care for her patient. Before long her patient had received a bolus and Jackie had obtained orders for several units of FFP's and PRBC'S. Of course there were the inevitable "bumps in the road". IV access was lost, numerous calls to the family had to be made to obtain consent since the patient was confused, but through it all, Jackie maintained her calm, nurturing disposition, speaking gently and reassuringly to her patient while placing yet another IV. By morning her patient was stable, with a SBP in the 130's, alert and conversing with us for the first time all night.

This patient may never fully realize how lucky she was to get Jackie as her nurse that night, but I do and that is why I am nominating Jackie for the DAISY Award. This is just one of the many examples of the outstanding, compassionate care Jackie provides her patients on a daily basis. She is a leader on our unit and I hope to continue to learn from her fine example.