Taylor Herrera Jones
April 2024
Taylor Herrera
Jones
,
ADN, RN
Outpatient Observation 1NW
Banner University Medical Center - Tucson
Tucson
,
AZ
United States

 

 

 

however because she kept pushing her patient’s outcome is better than what it could have been.
One night Taylor Jones received a patient from the ED. Taylor got a brief report from the ED nurse and went to assess the patient. Taylor’s gut instincts told her something was not right. Taylor reached out to her charge nurse who also felt that the patient had a stroke. Taylor called the cross-coverage doctor and the neurology team to express her concerns about the patient. At first, they tried to pass it off that the patient’s symptoms were because of something the patient took. Taylor kept pushing for her patient to be seen and the symptoms to be assessed by a doctor because they were stroke-like symptoms that did not appear to have been charted on. Patient went to have a CTA where it was discovered that she had a massive clot on her carotid. Patient was then moved to the ICU. If it was not for Taylor going above and beyond for this patient, I do not know what would have happened. Taylor had 5 patients that night, she could have just agreed with the doctors and left it at that, however because she kept pushing her patient’s outcome is better than what it could have been.