May 2022
Rezi'
Hawkins
University of Central Missouri
Lees Summit
,
MO
United States
Rezi spoke to our patient in the calmest and most caring way coming up with a plan to help him with his anxiety and discomfort all while holding his hand and giving him the support he needed.
Rezi is one of those special nursing students that you just know she is in nursing for the right reasons. She is compassionate with her patients and her developing organizational skills, critical thinking, and ability to prioritize enable her to make time to hold her patients' hands when they are scared and to truly listen to them. She picks up new skills and tasks quickly and is efficient but thorough when executing them. Rezi is team-oriented which is so important in nursing. She will be an asset to any team.
She was with another preceptor one day during her capstone here at University Health- Truman Medical Center. That preceptor stopped me the next day and said "thank you for allowing me to borrow Rezi, your capstone student, she is amazing! She did so well and we were tripled. She is going to be a fantastic nurse- her critical thinking skills and ability to prioritize her cares/tasks are better than some of our nurses that have been here for a couple of years on ICU and the patients loved her." I told Rezi I was so sad that North Kansas City Hospital already hired her only because we would have loved to hire her here at Truman.
An example of Rezi's compassionate patient care: We had a male patient in his 40's newly diagnosed with stage four colon cancer with mets to his lungs and liver. He was on the vent per ETT and was only lightly sedated to RASS 0 to -1. He was very anxious before the diagnosis and the shortness of breath. Rezi was suctioning bloody secretions out of the patient's ETT and the patient could see that he was coughing up blood which increased his anxiety even more. Rezi spoke to our patient in the calmest and most caring way coming up with a plan to help him with his anxiety and discomfort all while holding his hand and giving him the support he needed. Rezi advocated for the patient to have something for anxiety/and or increased sedation (r/t patient's discomfort and anxiety on the vent) during rounds that morning. Advocating for her patient and providing comfort and compassion- that is the type of nurse Rezi Hawkins has become in your program.
She was with another preceptor one day during her capstone here at University Health- Truman Medical Center. That preceptor stopped me the next day and said "thank you for allowing me to borrow Rezi, your capstone student, she is amazing! She did so well and we were tripled. She is going to be a fantastic nurse- her critical thinking skills and ability to prioritize her cares/tasks are better than some of our nurses that have been here for a couple of years on ICU and the patients loved her." I told Rezi I was so sad that North Kansas City Hospital already hired her only because we would have loved to hire her here at Truman.
An example of Rezi's compassionate patient care: We had a male patient in his 40's newly diagnosed with stage four colon cancer with mets to his lungs and liver. He was on the vent per ETT and was only lightly sedated to RASS 0 to -1. He was very anxious before the diagnosis and the shortness of breath. Rezi was suctioning bloody secretions out of the patient's ETT and the patient could see that he was coughing up blood which increased his anxiety even more. Rezi spoke to our patient in the calmest and most caring way coming up with a plan to help him with his anxiety and discomfort all while holding his hand and giving him the support he needed. Rezi advocated for the patient to have something for anxiety/and or increased sedation (r/t patient's discomfort and anxiety on the vent) during rounds that morning. Advocating for her patient and providing comfort and compassion- that is the type of nurse Rezi Hawkins has become in your program.