Rita O'Dowd
December 2023
Rita
O'Dowd
,
ADN, RN
Ambulatory Surgery Unit
NorthShore University HealthSystem Glenbrook Hospital
Glenview
,
IL
United States

 

 

 

Not only is Rita a true professional, a kind, compassionate, and a caring nurse, she is a wonderful human being
Rita was my nurse for my right eye cataract surgery on Thursday at Glenbrook Outpatient Surgery Center. I have a Power Port-A-Cath in my right chest due to poor vein access. She was training a younger nurse. Rita walked her trainee through each step one by one on how to insert the IV into the port to teach her how to do it perfectly (and when she deactivated the port after the surgery, she did the same thing but backward). I actually learned a couple of new bits of information. I have had a few ports in my lifetime and never knew a few things that Rita taught her and me that day. Not only is Rita a true professional, a kind, compassionate, and a caring nurse, she is a wonderful human being who should blessed with nothing but good health, happiness, and joy forever. It was my pleasure to be her patient. Please, please, please share this story with Rita and her trainee. I know they will appreciate it. Thank you very much!