Jordan Aljoe
September 2024
Jordan
Aljoe
,
RN
5NE
Integris Health Baptist Medical Center
Oklahoma City
,
OK
United States
Jordan went above and beyond to make my son (and myself) feel so loved and supported during a very stressful time of our lives.
If ever there was a more caring and compassionate person - nurse or otherwise - than Jordan Aljoe, I have yet to meet them! My son, S, was in the Integris Baptist new Heart Hospital ICU for two months awaiting a double lung transplant and then receiving it. During that time, we met an endless procession of nothing less than angels in the form of nurses, techs, respiratory therapists, and on and on. Shining above all of those was a special "angel” named Jordan!
Jordan came to see us every day, whether she was assigned to S or not. For 54 days, S was on ECMO. While all his nurses were very diligent during this time, Jordan watched S like a hawk. I even saw her step in and ask a visiting friend, who happened to be a home health nurse, to not touch the ECMO machine when she was curiously inspecting it to see how it worked. How many people would have the nerve to step up and do what she knew was right at the risk of offending a patient or their guest? Jordan didn't hesitate! She had my son's well-being a heart first!
More than once, after S's lung transplant, when S's nurse was busy taking care of other patients or handling other duties and S needed help, Jordan was right there with a smile on her face, eager to step in. You can imagine how, after 2 months in the ICU, being tied to a machine and waiting for the "perfect new lung" to become available, your spirits can get down. Jordan recognized this, and she made a poster that all the nurses, respiratory techs, doctors - anyone who worked with S - signed and wrote encouraging comments. This constantly brightened his day. He asked everyone who came in to help him to please sign this board and he showed it off to all friends who came to visit! He is so proud of this board, and he plans to hang it in his office at home, right next to his lung pillow, which he plans to put in a shadow box.
Jordan went above and beyond to make my son (and myself) feel so loved and supported during a very stressful time of our lives. All the nurses and doctors and respiratory techs in the ICU have a special place in Heaven for what they do. But Jordan Aljoe is at the top of that list!
Jordan came to see us every day, whether she was assigned to S or not. For 54 days, S was on ECMO. While all his nurses were very diligent during this time, Jordan watched S like a hawk. I even saw her step in and ask a visiting friend, who happened to be a home health nurse, to not touch the ECMO machine when she was curiously inspecting it to see how it worked. How many people would have the nerve to step up and do what she knew was right at the risk of offending a patient or their guest? Jordan didn't hesitate! She had my son's well-being a heart first!
More than once, after S's lung transplant, when S's nurse was busy taking care of other patients or handling other duties and S needed help, Jordan was right there with a smile on her face, eager to step in. You can imagine how, after 2 months in the ICU, being tied to a machine and waiting for the "perfect new lung" to become available, your spirits can get down. Jordan recognized this, and she made a poster that all the nurses, respiratory techs, doctors - anyone who worked with S - signed and wrote encouraging comments. This constantly brightened his day. He asked everyone who came in to help him to please sign this board and he showed it off to all friends who came to visit! He is so proud of this board, and he plans to hang it in his office at home, right next to his lung pillow, which he plans to put in a shadow box.
Jordan went above and beyond to make my son (and myself) feel so loved and supported during a very stressful time of our lives. All the nurses and doctors and respiratory techs in the ICU have a special place in Heaven for what they do. But Jordan Aljoe is at the top of that list!