I want to highlight Jasmine's laudable effort last night while charge nurse for L+D. We jointly cared for a patient who bled over 1.3 liters about 8 hours postpartum. Jasmine helped save the woman's life. She was the key player, the one who helped avert a potentially catastrophic event and made a challenge seem routine. Under pressure, she was calm and confident and helped educate other postpartum nurses who weren't comfortable or particularly competent to handle the situation. 

In my 28 years of work post-residency, I've had the privilege of working with many L+D nurses. She stands out among hundreds and deserves recognition, though I sense that she's also humble and wouldn't expect praise for merely doing her job. 

Here, I'm still the newbie. She really doesn't know my background or what I am capable of handling either, but she never once questioned me or my judgment. When I sought her advice and shared that the postpartum RN calling me seemed to need help, she immediately offered to personally carry both IV TXA and IM methergine upstairs. When I arrived, I found she had quickly surmised the need for a second line and was getting that accomplished. When from that room, I called a STAT case in the OR and spoke to anesthesia; she ordered the case so that there was no delay in transporting the patient immediately to OR1 on the fifth floor. She knew how to ready the Jada and nursed this patient through recovery in the PACU and LDR5. I witnessed her gentle and sensitive bedside manner, and the words she spoke through the translator service were as compassionate as her physical presence. 

The patient needed her, and so did I.