Kelly has become an excellent care manager for our diabetic and depressed patients. She helps co-manage OB prenatal patients as well as our busy practice of girls with eating disorders and high risk adolescents.
She is warm, professional and very knowledgeable about so many health issues that our patients have come to depend on her and trust her as their source of help, counselling and a link to their physician. Kelly is the "model" for what outpatient primary care is doing in teaching RNs to be "care managers" for chronic conditions, to work side by side with physicians and patients to empower them to take care of themselves,get to targets, and understand their condition.
Not only does she have these extraordinary cognitive and interpersonal skills, she can get an IV into a patient with acute seizure in seconds, and has kept up all her RN procedural skills.
It is this amazing breadth of nursing skills coupled with her professional growth in outpatient primary care and direct patient care that should award her the DAISY award. We hope she can help teach this RN model of care to future nurses for our primary care system at Virginia Mason.