Lisa's patient arrived on DCMH's Maternal/Child Health Unit with severe abdominal pain. From the moment she met Lisa, the patient knew she was in the hands of a kind, compassionate and competent nurse. "Lisa held my hand and encouraged me and made me feel that everything was going to be alright when I was at my breaking point," the patient said. "She listened to what I wanted, not what she wanted for me. We both came up with a plan for my pain management together."
"Lisa is a superwoman,'" says Rose Amato, R.N.C.-OB, B.S.N., MHA, nurse director of the Maternal/Child Health Unit at DCMH. "She works hard on the third shift, and when she's done she goes home to see her husband off to work and take care of her four children. But when she's here, her patients are her family. That's exactly how she treats them, and they feel her concern for their well-being. Lisa deserves this very special honor."
"Lisa ran around all night like an Olympic marathon runner - never complaining or looking exhausted," Lisa's patient said. "To take time out when I am in the most pain to talk to me as a human being - not just as a patient - made me feel safe and secure. Lisa is a sweet, hardworking, selfless, innovative, and very extraordinary woman."