Jordan Kamal
November 2021
Jordan
Kamal
,
RN
Intensive Care Unit
EvergreenHealth
Kirkland
,
WA
United States
There were many helping hands in the room, but Jordan was the guiding force that kept everyone doing jobs that needed doing while never stopping moving.
I'm sure you are aware, but tonight I wanted to write a brief note to say once again what an amazing STAT RN and clinician we have in Jordan Kamal. Tonight, he was hands down the most instrumental person at the bedside from 10 PM until 5 AM when a woman with a massive upper GIB. Jordan was the one that got the US-guided IV (in a woman with a port due to baseline poor venous access) that allowed us to use the rapid infuser for > 20 units of blood products.
He was the one that directed everyone to the ED bay when she decompensated on the way to CT from the ICU and basically directed the primary RN, several ED RNs, multiple techs, and several MDs in running relatively smooth many hours of resuscitation. He knew what things could be obtained in the ED and where to look, what things needed to be brought down from ICU, whom to direct to put what in which IV, and what was compatible with what. Whenever we paused to say "Ok, where are we? Let's run down what we've given", he was the one that had the accurate tally in his brain. He did all of this while running a rapid infuser that gave 15 units of PRBCs, 3 of platelets, and 12 of plasma. He was the one that kept flushing the NGT when it clogged repeatedly and replaced it twice with larger bore tubes.
There were many helping hands in the room, but Jordan was the guiding force that kept everyone doing jobs that needed doing while never stopping moving. As one of the MDs in the room, I made a few decisions and made a few phone calls to get specialty help to actually staunch the bleeding, but mainly I helped out doing the things that Jordan asked and needed. The fact that this woman survived and was resuscitated adequately to get to the IR suite is primarily the result of Jordan's excellent leadership and technical skills with all things nursing.
I've worked with Jordan as a tech, an RN in training, a CCU RN, ED RN, and STAT RN. In every job he has done, he has rapidly risen from trainee to best person in house for whatever role he has taken on. He is a great asset to Evergreen's team.
He was the one that directed everyone to the ED bay when she decompensated on the way to CT from the ICU and basically directed the primary RN, several ED RNs, multiple techs, and several MDs in running relatively smooth many hours of resuscitation. He knew what things could be obtained in the ED and where to look, what things needed to be brought down from ICU, whom to direct to put what in which IV, and what was compatible with what. Whenever we paused to say "Ok, where are we? Let's run down what we've given", he was the one that had the accurate tally in his brain. He did all of this while running a rapid infuser that gave 15 units of PRBCs, 3 of platelets, and 12 of plasma. He was the one that kept flushing the NGT when it clogged repeatedly and replaced it twice with larger bore tubes.
There were many helping hands in the room, but Jordan was the guiding force that kept everyone doing jobs that needed doing while never stopping moving. As one of the MDs in the room, I made a few decisions and made a few phone calls to get specialty help to actually staunch the bleeding, but mainly I helped out doing the things that Jordan asked and needed. The fact that this woman survived and was resuscitated adequately to get to the IR suite is primarily the result of Jordan's excellent leadership and technical skills with all things nursing.
I've worked with Jordan as a tech, an RN in training, a CCU RN, ED RN, and STAT RN. In every job he has done, he has rapidly risen from trainee to best person in house for whatever role he has taken on. He is a great asset to Evergreen's team.