Meagan Goings
May 2026
Meagan
Goings
,
ADN, RN
Prisma Health Baptist Parkridge Hospital
Columbia
,
SC
United States
Throughout a 3-hour interaction, starting at 4 p.m., Meagan was committed to ensuring this individual’s safety.
A young male called the Baptist Parkridge Emergency Department main line. He asked the unit secretary if this was the hospital and if someone could help him. He advised the unit secretary that he needed help and said, “I want to kill myself.”
This teammate immediately recognized the urgent need to attend to this individual, so she immediately escalated to the RNs available.
Meagan Goings, RN, picked up the line without a moment’s hesitation and immediately began to assess the situation. She was able to quickly build rapport with this individual, who identified himself by his first name and shared that he was 19 years old and needed help. He advised that he had active suicidal ideation and was considering specific plans when he recognized that he needed help.
Meagan continued to demonstrate soft, compassionate, and concerned communication with him while she tried to encourage him to seek help at the hospital, in which case she would meet him to help him through the process. She encouraged him to engage law enforcement so they could meet him where he was and make sure he was safe.
Throughout a 3-hour interaction, starting at 4 p.m., Meagan was committed to ensuring this individual’s safety.
He would intermittently disconnect, at which point Meagan would call him back, offering to include one of our providers or other clinical team members to support him in seeking treatment for his critical need.
Meagan demonstrated effective leadership skills by coordinating a response with the care team to support this individual, who simply called the ED at a critical moment in which he truly needed help.
She was able to build a rapport to convince him to allow her to connect him with a 911 dispatcher. The team had been able to coordinate to bring awareness to the current situation in an attempt to help. Due to the relationship and trust that Meagan had so effortlessly built, she was able to introduce the dispatcher to him and ensure that he knew this was a source of support and trust at this time.
In this and several other instances, Meagan’s daily actions model the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses to include respect for individual needs, an overarching commitment to the patient, and a fierce advocacy for safety.
Meagan strives to collaborate and engage resources to meet each patient’s, and in this case, individual’s needs, committing herself to ensure these are seen through.
Meagan’s actions on this day model what the DAISY Foundation, the DAISY Award, and the ANA Code of Ethics represent.
Throughout this interaction, she not only supported and expertly resourced this individual who was not an active patient in her care, but actively sought to preserve his human dignity in the best interest of his welfare.
This teammate immediately recognized the urgent need to attend to this individual, so she immediately escalated to the RNs available.
Meagan Goings, RN, picked up the line without a moment’s hesitation and immediately began to assess the situation. She was able to quickly build rapport with this individual, who identified himself by his first name and shared that he was 19 years old and needed help. He advised that he had active suicidal ideation and was considering specific plans when he recognized that he needed help.
Meagan continued to demonstrate soft, compassionate, and concerned communication with him while she tried to encourage him to seek help at the hospital, in which case she would meet him to help him through the process. She encouraged him to engage law enforcement so they could meet him where he was and make sure he was safe.
Throughout a 3-hour interaction, starting at 4 p.m., Meagan was committed to ensuring this individual’s safety.
He would intermittently disconnect, at which point Meagan would call him back, offering to include one of our providers or other clinical team members to support him in seeking treatment for his critical need.
Meagan demonstrated effective leadership skills by coordinating a response with the care team to support this individual, who simply called the ED at a critical moment in which he truly needed help.
She was able to build a rapport to convince him to allow her to connect him with a 911 dispatcher. The team had been able to coordinate to bring awareness to the current situation in an attempt to help. Due to the relationship and trust that Meagan had so effortlessly built, she was able to introduce the dispatcher to him and ensure that he knew this was a source of support and trust at this time.
In this and several other instances, Meagan’s daily actions model the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses to include respect for individual needs, an overarching commitment to the patient, and a fierce advocacy for safety.
Meagan strives to collaborate and engage resources to meet each patient’s, and in this case, individual’s needs, committing herself to ensure these are seen through.
Meagan’s actions on this day model what the DAISY Foundation, the DAISY Award, and the ANA Code of Ethics represent.
Throughout this interaction, she not only supported and expertly resourced this individual who was not an active patient in her care, but actively sought to preserve his human dignity in the best interest of his welfare.