Jamie Hambly, BSN, RN, CCRN, C-NPT

Jamie Hambly has been an incredible asset to the Pediatric ICU. She always has a positive attitude, loves high acuity situations, and loves saving the lives of children and her coworkers. She is an inspiration every day she works and makes everyone want to raise their game to meet hers. On this particular day, she did something incredible I can’t remember seeing in my years in the PICU as a student, resident, fellow, or attending. She spontaneously organized an honor walk for a 20-month-old girl who had been on our unit since Christmas. This girl was intubated, with multiple chest tubes, on VV ECMO, and there were several times where it looked like she may not survive. She did, and at the time of her transfer out of our PICU, she was neurologically intact, on room air, and was happy and smiling. Jamie had the staff line the halls and had our patient walk past everyone like the star of a parade – mother was pulling her wagon while recording video of her waving and smiling. Mother was crying tears of joy as they passed all the applauding staff on their way to the elevators. We often see heartbreaking events happen on our unit, so when there is a reason to celebrate, it brings a lot of joy to our staff and our parents, and it reminds us why we do what we do. I am nominating Jamie Hambly for the DAISY Award specifically for this event, but I feel like she deserves a lifetime award for what she has done to change the culture of our PICU with her example of positive, uplifting hard work that makes a difference every day.