Sarah A Brown, BSN, RN

I recently spent six nights in the hospital after being diagnosed with heart failure. I'm so grateful to the entire nursing team, who were all so caring, personable, and responsive, at a very scary time in my life. Nurse Sarah stood out in an already high baseline of care.

Sarah is a compassionate spirit with contagious spunk and optimism. She was able to strike just the right balance between nurse, advocate, and listener. On a particularly difficult day, when my body wasn't responding quickly enough to a medication I needed for a test, she helped me relax through it and advocated for me to get the test done in the nick of time before the weekend. That was a critical puzzle piece for my treatment and release from the hospital.

She demonstrated that nursing can involve a whole bevy of talents beyond medical treatment. Even though it was a busy day, she found time to walk laps around the hospital floor with me, and shared her overseas travel experiences in such a beautifully vivid way, that I gained precious hope to visit there someday myself.

Sarah also listened to me worry out loud about life and gave me concrete advice to take with me after leaving the hospital. At a time when I had completely lost trust in my own body and mind, she felt like a safe harbor. She helped instill the confidence I needed to begin building the trust in my body and the medications for the journey of healing ahead.

In a hospital full of amazing nurses, she stands out like a superhero. Thank you, Sarah!