At the ASC Clinic, Nancy Staas is the one person who you could go to with any problem, question, situation, or concern and she would immediately have an answer. If there was a glue holding the ASC Clinic together, that glue would probably be Elmers, but the picture on the front of the bottle would be a picture of Nancy Staas.
Nancy is usually a rock and if she was to be described by a volume, it would be loud. In personal and clinical situations Nancy seems to always hold it together. She is the person who seems to be in control in every situation, and I have seen her cry.
Parkland would be hard pressed to find someone with so much compassion as to cry when something good happens for the patient. For example, the ASC Clinic was treating a patient for an ortho issue, but the patient also had advanced breast cancer. The patient was in the exam room when she began to experience severe pain in her chest. The patient had a look of extreme pain and was vigorously moaning. Nancy immediately became the patient's advocate as if the patient was the only patient in the clinic. 911 was called. In the interim Nancy did everything she could for the patient, but, most importantly, she never left the patient's side.
When EMS arrived, Nancy was the perfect advocate for the patient and was able to convince the EMS team to administer analgesics to the patient before going to the ED. While it may seem that this is what any nurse would have done in the same situation, it must be remembered that there was a full clinic running around her. She was able to put the chaos aside and compassionately care for the patient.
I remember from Nursing School that there is a difference between leadership and management. Management is a title, but people follow leaders. Nancy is a leader and is well deserving of the DAISY award!