...Elise is always looking for learning opportunities to become a better nurse. This drive for personal improvement and beneficial patient outcomes makes her a role model in a unit that is facing many changes and requires someone like Elise to keep morale high with her positive outlook. Elise is always willing to help her peers with patient care and does so with a smile. She is constantly looking for ways to ease the burden on her peers and patients.

Elise once had a patient who was experiencing severe pain and no interventions had been successful. She was readily open to suggestions from fellow nurses and physicians. While this might seem like a normal and expected action for a nurse, Elise approached the situation with advocacy and compassion. Her sole mission was to make that patient comfortable.