Although she is a relatively new labor and delivery nurse, she has shown what it really means to deliver the highest quality care to our patients. Her compassion and dedication to her patients and her craft are evident on a daily basis, but recently, she had a patient who brought this even more to light. 

For two nights, she had been taking care of a patient who was delivering a baby with severe anomalies that would not be conducive to life outside the womb. Over those two nights, she formed a special bond with the patient and her family. She spent hours with the patient comforting her, making her comfortable, and even taking the time to braid her hair. While she was readjusting the fetal monitors before leaving in the morning on the second day, the patient put her hand over this nurse’s hand and told the baby, "You have to wait to come until she is back." When she was offered on her third night to take call, she declined, stating that she had told the patient that she would be back to take care of her, and that she felt an even greater need to be there for the patient because by this time the infant has passed in utero. She ended up delivering this patient on her third night. The baby was delivered within the first hour of Larissa being on shift, and the patient told her, “See, he did wait for you."

Her selflessness and compassion helped make this tragic event one that this patient will never forget.