Jen had a patient who had been admitted at MetroHealth for 45 days. He spent Christmas and New Years at Metrohealth and during the course of his stay had somehow lost his wedding band. When his doctors saw him, they told him he could finally go home today. However, when Jen assessed him, she observed "leaking thick cream drainage" from his feeding tube site, edema and patient clutching his side and complaining of increased pain. Despite communicating this with the patient's team, they put in an order at 1400 to discharge the patient home.
However, Jen remained persistent in her quest for advocating for this patient until the patient's team finally agreed to do a CT of his chest, abdomen and pelvis at 15:27. The CT scan showed a splenic abscess, of which the patient needed to have another IR drain placed. His discharge was cancelled, he was started on different antibiotics and he was discharged three days later making his total stay at MetroHealth 48 days.
Jen is the type of nurse you want caring for your loved one, as she treats them as if they are her own and she does not take "no" for an answer when her intuition tells her that something is off.