Jasmine Nelson
June 2025
Jasmine
Nelson
,
RM
Maternity Unit
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
Stevenage
,
Hertfordshire
United Kingdom
Jasmine has been dedicated to finding ways to help her overcome these challenges to ensure both the mother and the baby have the best outcome possible, and gives truly personalised care.
Jasmine has gone above and beyond for a woman and her baby under difficult circumstances. She changed her shift to ensure she could be present for the birth and also went in on her day off when the unit staff were refused entry to the room to care for the woman. Jasmine also created a bag of baby items for the baby to take into care when the parents had not prepared anything. Jasmine is a fabulous midwife and an amazing member of the team.
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We would like to nominate Jasmine Nelson for a DAISY Award. She is an incredibly dedicated community midwife who gives all of her patients wonderful care. She recently went above and beyond the remit of her role to support a very complex couple, to whom the world has been unkind throughout their lives. The patient is neurodiverse and clearly experiences the world very differently from the majority of us. This has led to multiple challenges in providing her optimal antenatal care. Jasmine has been dedicated to finding ways to help her overcome these challenges to ensure both the mother and the baby have the best outcome possible, and gives truly personalised care.
In addition to her neurodiversity, this patient has a complex mental health and social background, which has required working with the full maternity MDT, presenting and advocating for her whilst considering the future wellbeing of the unborn child. Examples of the personalised care included arranging and attending all her appointments in the hospital with her (prior to Jasmine doing this, she was DNA-ing all her care) and making sure she is able to get there by advocating for her to have taxis. She arranged her timetable so she could be present for her birth as this patient would struggle with an unfamiliar team. She attended that unit, on her day off, at the request of other staff in the unit as this patient was struggling with her mental wellbeing postnatally, Jasmine helped calm down a very tricky situation.
As a service, we are lucky to have such a phenomenal community midwife who has made sure she is able to provide truly personalised continuity of care, despite all the other demands on the community midwifery team.
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We would like to nominate Jasmine Nelson for a DAISY Award. She is an incredibly dedicated community midwife who gives all of her patients wonderful care. She recently went above and beyond the remit of her role to support a very complex couple, to whom the world has been unkind throughout their lives. The patient is neurodiverse and clearly experiences the world very differently from the majority of us. This has led to multiple challenges in providing her optimal antenatal care. Jasmine has been dedicated to finding ways to help her overcome these challenges to ensure both the mother and the baby have the best outcome possible, and gives truly personalised care.
In addition to her neurodiversity, this patient has a complex mental health and social background, which has required working with the full maternity MDT, presenting and advocating for her whilst considering the future wellbeing of the unborn child. Examples of the personalised care included arranging and attending all her appointments in the hospital with her (prior to Jasmine doing this, she was DNA-ing all her care) and making sure she is able to get there by advocating for her to have taxis. She arranged her timetable so she could be present for her birth as this patient would struggle with an unfamiliar team. She attended that unit, on her day off, at the request of other staff in the unit as this patient was struggling with her mental wellbeing postnatally, Jasmine helped calm down a very tricky situation.
As a service, we are lucky to have such a phenomenal community midwife who has made sure she is able to provide truly personalised continuity of care, despite all the other demands on the community midwifery team.