Christabel Solomon
January 2025
Christabel
Solomon
,
RN
Yilo Krobo, Eastern Region- Clinical
Nursing and Midwifery, Ghana Health Service
Ghana
To her, nursing care goes beyond just the serving of medications, giving patients instructions, checking vital signs, getting close to patients and finding out what their real needs are, making their interest paramount, ensuring patients have a sense of belongingness and feeling valued and loved.
I came into contact with Ms. Solomon when I experienced her extraordinary concern, touch, and excellent human relationship skills that brought me relief after 4 days in distress while on admission.
On this particular day, on her usual morning rounds in checking up with every patient on the ward, Ms Solomon, touched me by my shoulder calmly, greeted me and asked how I was doing.
For me, that was the moment I had been waiting for all this while, to make someone listen to my plight. I quickly told her about how I hadn’t been able to move my bowels for the three (3) days I had been on admission. From her facial expressions, I knew immediately that I was going to have an opportunity to trust someone with my distressing problem of three days of constipation.
There and then, she not only listened to my concerns, but she began giving me reassurances, educated me on the need to take more fluids and fruits, and the need for me to prepare for an enema.
A few minutes later, after she had left my bedside, she returned with one of her female colleagues. She told me all about enemas and organized for me to be given one. She then served me with a bedpan, and I indeed emptied my bowel very well. Thereafter, she assisted her colleague in giving me a refreshing bed bath; they changed my bed linen and clothes and left me comfortable, relieved, and refreshed in bed.
After that, she went ahead and gave me some fruits, including my favorite pawpaw. Thereafter, I began to move my bowels twice daily, more to my ultimate relief and delight.
When my family came to visit, and they wanted to give her some money for the fruits she had bought for me, she refused by saying that it was done out of benevolence.
I really liked this nurse and her compassionate approach to care. To her, nursing care goes beyond just the serving of medications, giving patients instructions, checking vital signs, getting close to patients and finding out what their real needs are, making their interest paramount, ensuring patients have a sense of belongingness and feeling valued and loved.
She's one nurse who places herself in the place of her patients and shows compassion during her care. She is hardworking, always punctual, respectful, and also nice to every patient and their relatives.
She always wears her signature smile on her face whenever she interacts with anyone who comes her way. We will always wish to have a nice like her. May God bless her in all her endeavors.
On this particular day, on her usual morning rounds in checking up with every patient on the ward, Ms Solomon, touched me by my shoulder calmly, greeted me and asked how I was doing.
For me, that was the moment I had been waiting for all this while, to make someone listen to my plight. I quickly told her about how I hadn’t been able to move my bowels for the three (3) days I had been on admission. From her facial expressions, I knew immediately that I was going to have an opportunity to trust someone with my distressing problem of three days of constipation.
There and then, she not only listened to my concerns, but she began giving me reassurances, educated me on the need to take more fluids and fruits, and the need for me to prepare for an enema.
A few minutes later, after she had left my bedside, she returned with one of her female colleagues. She told me all about enemas and organized for me to be given one. She then served me with a bedpan, and I indeed emptied my bowel very well. Thereafter, she assisted her colleague in giving me a refreshing bed bath; they changed my bed linen and clothes and left me comfortable, relieved, and refreshed in bed.
After that, she went ahead and gave me some fruits, including my favorite pawpaw. Thereafter, I began to move my bowels twice daily, more to my ultimate relief and delight.
When my family came to visit, and they wanted to give her some money for the fruits she had bought for me, she refused by saying that it was done out of benevolence.
I really liked this nurse and her compassionate approach to care. To her, nursing care goes beyond just the serving of medications, giving patients instructions, checking vital signs, getting close to patients and finding out what their real needs are, making their interest paramount, ensuring patients have a sense of belongingness and feeling valued and loved.
She's one nurse who places herself in the place of her patients and shows compassion during her care. She is hardworking, always punctual, respectful, and also nice to every patient and their relatives.
She always wears her signature smile on her face whenever she interacts with anyone who comes her way. We will always wish to have a nice like her. May God bless her in all her endeavors.