Jennifer Roschival is an ICU nurse in the medical intensive care unit in an inner-city level I trauma center. She's been doing this since she graduated from nursing school in 2005 and has never strayed from the path of caring for the most vulnerable and critically ill. Jen has asthma and when the COVID-19 pandemic hit mid-Michigan, she could have asked to be reassigned because of her increased risk but she didn't. She shows up and continues to show up, even signing up for extra shifts to help those in need even if it puts her at more risk.
Jen has always put her patients first, skipping breaks to speak with family or help a patient shave for the first time since getting to the hospital. No task is beneath her if it means making her patient get better or feel special. She is a nurse that everyone should inspire to replicate. She has true dedication to the profession of nursing and to the golden rule of nursing which is to "treat patients like they were your own family". The stories of how Jen exemplifies this are too numerous to count.