Peter Nguyen
June 2025
Peter
Nguyen
,
BSN, RN
Cardiology B
Providence St. Vincent
Portland
,
OR
United States

 

 

 

Not every nurse has such situational awareness and the ability to exercise discernment and to act boldly when necessary.
Peter took care of me for two nights. He did a great job of batching tasks to optimize my sleep, but more importantly, he took bold, definitive action when I had a new onset of A Fib post angiogram and 5-second pauses. I am a retired family physician and there is a patient safety risk of "excessive professional courtesy" i.e. doing whatever I might want. Nurse Nguyen expertly sidestepped this issue. He identified the problem, reached out to the charge nurse and cardiology. Therapy was changed and I converted to sinus rhythm overnight. Not every nurse has such situational awareness and the ability to exercise discernment and to act boldly when necessary. When I mentioned this to him, he was too modest to recognize what I saw as exceptional actions…Peter is a credit to his profession and the nursing staff at St. Vincent’s.