Logan LeBlanc
March 2021
Logan
LeBlanc
,
RN
3 Children's
University Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson
,
MS
United States
Logan picked up everyone from his entire shift during a treacherous ice storm INCLUDING his educator and manager every SINGLE day, and dropped them off at home every night for 4 days in a row!
Every shift, Logan strives to provide the best care for his patients. On any given day, when entering 3 Children’s, you can often see Logan running and playing nerf guns with his beloved patients, holding a baby in order to provide comfort in the absence of its parents, cracking a joke in order to make a patient smile, painting fingernails, high fiving a patient for ambulating, celebrating the end of a chemo round, playing Xbox, and so on. These are all the things he does in addition to providing the best nursing care.
Recently, we started taking adult patients. Communication with those provider teams has been different for us in Children’s. Logan had a 21 y/o male patient who was admitted for a GSW. After hours of trying to communicate a gut feeling of something not being right, Logan escalated to the attending. He was fearless in his pursuit of answers for this patient, no matter what pushback he received. He handled the doubt, condescending tones, and questions gracefully. He communicated each piece of information that he believed to be important, no matter how subtle the detail. It paid off, as Logan’s gut feeling was correct, and the patient required emergency surgery.
Caring for a population very unfamiliar to him, Logan proved that though he may be trained to be a pediatric hematology/oncology nurse, nursing shows no limitations on age nor does the nursing gut ever waiver from being right. Without Logan’s persistence, I know this patient could have had a very different outcome. Though all of those things alone make Logan a DAISY Nurse, his actions recently proved that he goes above and beyond for his patients, coworkers, and unit.
Most recently, Logan picked up everyone from his entire shift during a treacherous ice storm INCLUDING his educator and manager every SINGLE day, and dropped them off at home every night for 4 days in a row! This included days that Logan did not even have to be at work. His journey began at 4:30 AM on all of these days and ended well past 9 PM. Logan also stopped to pull several people who were trapped out of the ice along his journey. He expected nothing in return and would not even accept anything that was offered to him. 3 Children’s was the ONLY unit in Children’s that had ZERO call-ins due to weather during one of the most historical ice storms in Jackson. 3 Children’s may have been the only inpatient unit in the entire medical center that did not receive any call-ins. Though Logan would not take any credit for his actions, he deserves to be recognized. When I asked him why he felt the need to do this, Logan simply stated “You would do it for me. I did it so our patients could be cared for. They need us. I knew I could get us all here safely, and that’s what I had to do.”
Today, Logan was observed pushing the trash cart and emptying the trash from all of the inpatient rooms. EVS has been super short d/t call-ins and while waiting for his patient to arrive, he stepped in to help that team. He shines bright every shift, but this week alone he has proven to be a true DAISY Nurse.
Recently, we started taking adult patients. Communication with those provider teams has been different for us in Children’s. Logan had a 21 y/o male patient who was admitted for a GSW. After hours of trying to communicate a gut feeling of something not being right, Logan escalated to the attending. He was fearless in his pursuit of answers for this patient, no matter what pushback he received. He handled the doubt, condescending tones, and questions gracefully. He communicated each piece of information that he believed to be important, no matter how subtle the detail. It paid off, as Logan’s gut feeling was correct, and the patient required emergency surgery.
Caring for a population very unfamiliar to him, Logan proved that though he may be trained to be a pediatric hematology/oncology nurse, nursing shows no limitations on age nor does the nursing gut ever waiver from being right. Without Logan’s persistence, I know this patient could have had a very different outcome. Though all of those things alone make Logan a DAISY Nurse, his actions recently proved that he goes above and beyond for his patients, coworkers, and unit.
Most recently, Logan picked up everyone from his entire shift during a treacherous ice storm INCLUDING his educator and manager every SINGLE day, and dropped them off at home every night for 4 days in a row! This included days that Logan did not even have to be at work. His journey began at 4:30 AM on all of these days and ended well past 9 PM. Logan also stopped to pull several people who were trapped out of the ice along his journey. He expected nothing in return and would not even accept anything that was offered to him. 3 Children’s was the ONLY unit in Children’s that had ZERO call-ins due to weather during one of the most historical ice storms in Jackson. 3 Children’s may have been the only inpatient unit in the entire medical center that did not receive any call-ins. Though Logan would not take any credit for his actions, he deserves to be recognized. When I asked him why he felt the need to do this, Logan simply stated “You would do it for me. I did it so our patients could be cared for. They need us. I knew I could get us all here safely, and that’s what I had to do.”
Today, Logan was observed pushing the trash cart and emptying the trash from all of the inpatient rooms. EVS has been super short d/t call-ins and while waiting for his patient to arrive, he stepped in to help that team. He shines bright every shift, but this week alone he has proven to be a true DAISY Nurse.