Lysia Urban
April 2021
Lysia
Urban
,
ADN, RN
Emergency Transport
Children’s National Hospital
Washington
,
DC
United States
In addition to providing direct care, Lysia was a constant resource for the other nurses and paramedics on the team who were called upon to provide care when Lysia was off.
A seven-year-old girl was admitted to Children’s National Hospital for a resection of a recurrent empendymoma. She has a long history and now required 30 treatments at the Sibley Proton Center. Given her tenuous respiratory status, the transports would be very difficult to manage safely and required great attention to detail. Lysia Urban, one of the nurses on the transport team, took on the task of helping to manage this case. She attended rounds and huddles on the patient's care, helped coordinate care with the team at Sibley, and developed a great deal of trust with the patient's family.
Of 32 trips across, Lysia participated in 21 of them. ("Trip” makes it sound a lot easier than it was. Each trip represented four or more hours out of the hospital with a patient constantly on the cusp of needed ICU-level care.] In addition to providing direct care, Lysia was a constant resource for the other nurses and paramedics on the team who were called upon to provide care when Lysia was off. She often gave guidance on things that would make the transport go more smoothly or would help make that day's treatment a little easier for this patient. This effort, in turn, helped the entire team build a caring and therapeutic relationship with the patient and her family who had been through so much (this was a recurrent tumor, so the second time through for them). The level of commitment, compassion, and connection that Lysia demonstrated in her care for this patient was a shining example of everything care at Children’s National Hospital should be and the difference she made for this family represents everything the DAISY Award is.
Of 32 trips across, Lysia participated in 21 of them. ("Trip” makes it sound a lot easier than it was. Each trip represented four or more hours out of the hospital with a patient constantly on the cusp of needed ICU-level care.] In addition to providing direct care, Lysia was a constant resource for the other nurses and paramedics on the team who were called upon to provide care when Lysia was off. She often gave guidance on things that would make the transport go more smoothly or would help make that day's treatment a little easier for this patient. This effort, in turn, helped the entire team build a caring and therapeutic relationship with the patient and her family who had been through so much (this was a recurrent tumor, so the second time through for them). The level of commitment, compassion, and connection that Lysia demonstrated in her care for this patient was a shining example of everything care at Children’s National Hospital should be and the difference she made for this family represents everything the DAISY Award is.