The police dropped off a patient to access stating that the patient needed to be here because they were belligerent and "acting crazy." Ryan took the patient back for an assessment and noticed that the patient was having trouble speaking. She did a stroke assessment and the patient passed, however the patient still was unable to express their thoughts through speech. Ryan could tell the patient wanted to speak, but simply was unable to verbalize their thoughts. Ryan immediately, forgetting to even call our doctors, sent the patient to the ER for medical treatment where they found a 2.5 cm bleed in the man's brain with edema causing the brain to have a mid-line shift.

The man was rushed to the ICU for treatment. What Ryan did was truly remarkable and in my professional opinion deserves all of the recognition. I worked ICU for 8 years and understand the seriousness of the man's bleed. How a nurse could assess that simply from a speech standpoint, where we assess patients all the time with thought blocking or speech issues due to mental illness, is beyond me. If the man had been assessed by one of our counselors, there is no way they would have sent this man immediately to the ER. We see speech pattern difficulties all the time. If you do more digging and research with what happened to the man and his outcome I'm sure you will be as impressed as I am that Ryan and could have done this.