I would like to say a hearty "Job well done" to the Pasco County staff in general and to Nurse Julie specifically for their recent activities when my wife had a medical concern at the office. She is transitioning into a new set of methods and medicines in her diabetes regimen. One of her new medicines combined with a low blood sugar event to brought her to the point of almost losing consciousness at work. This is a new scenario for my lovely spouse and she was not completely aware of the onset of the event.

The staff detected the signs of her decreased performance and began to counter the effects. Nurse Julie leapt into positive action and called to arrange my wife's medicines and machines to be brought to the facility. She called our daughter that just happens to be home from NCSU and was the most rapid response available. She also called me to inform me and keep me posted of the current status. The rest of the staff assisted where and as needed in a complete team effort.

I have always admired and envied the professional staff that my wife is surrounded by at her office. They truly typify all the motivational posters one sees displayed in many offices depicting teamwork and group dedication. While this response to my wife's medical needs is yet another example of their cooperation and dedication to each other, this one is particularly personal to my family. These are the same mannerisms employed by the staff of the Pasco County Early Steps program on their clientele.

I feel this exceptional group of amazing people and particularly Julie deserves some above-and-beyond recognition for the stellar performance level.



(The story above was written by the husband and below was written by her staff regarding the same incident)


We had a family in for an 8:30am evaluation appointment. One of our employees, EV evidently was showing signs of low blood sugar and was drifting in and out. Julie Vincent was one of our Evaluators in the room and recognized that EV was having difficulty, so she and Gayle (one of our community evaluators) asked EV questions and realized there was not any response and something serious was going on. Julie immediately took action and gave EV muffins, a smoothie and sent another employee out to get orange juice. In addition to responding to her 'patient', Julie also made sure all the right people were informed (family and supervisor) and took charge of the situation telling other employees what they could do to help. This is not the first time that Julie has utilized her nursing experience to help an employee in our department, it is just one of many examples of how Julie works as a team player and goes above and beyond what her 'duties' are. We are grateful to have Julie on our Early Steps team and hope she will be recognized for her dedication.