November 2016
Crystal
Facemyer
,
RN
Joint Replacement
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
Winston-Salem
,
NC
United States
Hope stayed late to help with a patient. The patient started to vomit bright red blood. Hope paged the Doctor, recorded vital signs, held the emesis basin, measured emesis and emptied it. She volunteered to stay on the unit with the only other nurse until the patient was transferred to ICU.