Shawna Pitman
January 2021
Shawna
Pitman
,
RN
OR
Weiser Memorial Hospital
Shawna's personal experience brought me comfort and encouragement impossible to orchestrate. Her pure, reflexive care expressed at that critical moment could not, nor cannot, be imitated.
I was an outpatient surgery recipient in March 2020. Shawna was the nurse who attended to me and prepped me for my surgery. She stayed in the room with me and we talked about many things. She was very kind with a kind spirit. She only left the room to check on the surgery room status. I felt like I had one of my own children with me. She's a sweetheart and very deliberate in her job duties. I think that is just her nature. Hope to have her again when I have to return.
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Surgery is very scary (given). In November Shawna met me to escort me into pre-op with a smile (as I was met by all the Weiser Hospital staff, thanks to all!). Then Shawna did what qualifies her for not just The DAISY Award, but as evidence of her truly being a Saint. She asked me how my wife was doing. This was not offered as an innocent off-handed gesture; one that I would regard as a kindness always, but with knowledge and sincere concern about my wife. Shawna had never met my wife, nor me. You see, the day before, my wife had breast cancer surgery at another hospital. My surgery had been in the works when the cancer was discovered and surgery came asap, as was prudent. My surgery was kept scheduled as my Achilles tendon had been in need of it for many months and shouldn't have been delayed. A lower priority but thought necessary. Shawna's personal experience brought me comfort and encouragement impossible to orchestrate. Her pure, reflexive care expressed at that critical moment could not, nor cannot, be imitated. Shawna is a DAISY Nurse based on not just her great provision and skill in her profession, but in her cutting through all the circumstances to inquired of, and actually invest herself in a higher circumstance, not at all of the concern for which I was in her care. The love expressed by Shawna for a "passing-thru patient," that is expressed into my very life, reflected and reflects, the love of Jesus. I am enormously grateful and pray she is blessed as she has so wonderfully blessed me.
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Surgery is very scary (given). In November Shawna met me to escort me into pre-op with a smile (as I was met by all the Weiser Hospital staff, thanks to all!). Then Shawna did what qualifies her for not just The DAISY Award, but as evidence of her truly being a Saint. She asked me how my wife was doing. This was not offered as an innocent off-handed gesture; one that I would regard as a kindness always, but with knowledge and sincere concern about my wife. Shawna had never met my wife, nor me. You see, the day before, my wife had breast cancer surgery at another hospital. My surgery had been in the works when the cancer was discovered and surgery came asap, as was prudent. My surgery was kept scheduled as my Achilles tendon had been in need of it for many months and shouldn't have been delayed. A lower priority but thought necessary. Shawna's personal experience brought me comfort and encouragement impossible to orchestrate. Her pure, reflexive care expressed at that critical moment could not, nor cannot, be imitated. Shawna is a DAISY Nurse based on not just her great provision and skill in her profession, but in her cutting through all the circumstances to inquired of, and actually invest herself in a higher circumstance, not at all of the concern for which I was in her care. The love expressed by Shawna for a "passing-thru patient," that is expressed into my very life, reflected and reflects, the love of Jesus. I am enormously grateful and pray she is blessed as she has so wonderfully blessed me.