Jessie Sandan
November 2015
Jessie
Sandan
,
RN
ED
Lovelace Medical Center
Albuquerque
,
NM
United States
Nurses are very brave, insightful and compassionate. They have that calming quality that is so important to our patients in their time of fear and need. Nurses are present at those sacred moments when patients we care for are clinging to their last breath, or they leave this world.
Jessie is new to my department. It was obvious to several of us as we watched her grow during her preceptor ship, that she demonstrated the quality of touching lives in profound ways. She is meticulous in her practice a nurse, she is sensitive to the needs of her work family, and is an awesome team member. She is an amazing young NURSE! Her patients often comment about the care she provides to them.
Recently there have been some changes in the department and our nurse preceptors (few that we have) have taken on new roles. As the team convened to determine who would be best nurse to the fill the preceptor's role in our time of desperate need, her name came up. We all pondered, but she is fairly new and she will precept a new graduate nurse? I approached Jessie with the plan and she readily accepted the challenge to learn something else and share her knowledge and nursing practice behaviors with a new graduate nurse. She was nervous but excited and kept stating, "I know I will have all the help I need from my team in case I don't have all the answers".
During this process she encountered an interpersonal, conflicting issue with her orientee and a member of the team. She exercised all the right skills we use in conflict management in attempting to mitigate a difficult situation with her team members and was not successful. She consulted with me to tell me what she needed to do. We met with the parties involved and she was very insightful, compassionate, and respectful during her problem solving with them. She was very calming and demonstrated such respect, and integrity and my only thought was" WOW! Here is a leader in the making!" I have seen her taking care of her patients in their time of fear and need and can only say, "they are lucky to have Jessie as their nurse". This is why she is my DAISY Award Nominee.
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Jessie was very attentive to my husband's needs. She showed excellent nursing skills. What impressed me even more was that Jesse had given her report to the floor nurse and could have allowed someone else to take my husband to the floor especially since her shift was over, but Jessie stayed and took him instead. What dedication she has. I have not seen this from a nurse in a long time and I am a retired nurse. You have a great employee in Jessie Sandan.
Jessie is new to my department. It was obvious to several of us as we watched her grow during her preceptor ship, that she demonstrated the quality of touching lives in profound ways. She is meticulous in her practice a nurse, she is sensitive to the needs of her work family, and is an awesome team member. She is an amazing young NURSE! Her patients often comment about the care she provides to them.
Recently there have been some changes in the department and our nurse preceptors (few that we have) have taken on new roles. As the team convened to determine who would be best nurse to the fill the preceptor's role in our time of desperate need, her name came up. We all pondered, but she is fairly new and she will precept a new graduate nurse? I approached Jessie with the plan and she readily accepted the challenge to learn something else and share her knowledge and nursing practice behaviors with a new graduate nurse. She was nervous but excited and kept stating, "I know I will have all the help I need from my team in case I don't have all the answers".
During this process she encountered an interpersonal, conflicting issue with her orientee and a member of the team. She exercised all the right skills we use in conflict management in attempting to mitigate a difficult situation with her team members and was not successful. She consulted with me to tell me what she needed to do. We met with the parties involved and she was very insightful, compassionate, and respectful during her problem solving with them. She was very calming and demonstrated such respect, and integrity and my only thought was" WOW! Here is a leader in the making!" I have seen her taking care of her patients in their time of fear and need and can only say, "they are lucky to have Jessie as their nurse". This is why she is my DAISY Award Nominee.
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Jessie was very attentive to my husband's needs. She showed excellent nursing skills. What impressed me even more was that Jesse had given her report to the floor nurse and could have allowed someone else to take my husband to the floor especially since her shift was over, but Jessie stayed and took him instead. What dedication she has. I have not seen this from a nurse in a long time and I am a retired nurse. You have a great employee in Jessie Sandan.