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City: South Daytona
State: Florida
Nursing Specialty: Anesthesiology, Surgery, General
Employer: Advent Health
Excellence in: PACU/Critical Care
Where do you see yourself in 5 years? I see myself with a masters in nursing education working as a clinical nurse educator!
Who do you want to work for in the future? A college and Advent Health.

"I was caring for a post craniotomy for a subdural hematoma evacuation for two days in a row. The second day the patient was downgraded from ICU but remained with us while he waited for a PCU room to open up. The day before we were talking about his time in the military, his career all the presidents he had met and lots of fun stories from his life. Although the second day he answered all of my orientations correctly and passed his neurological exam. Something was not right. My nurse gut was telling me something else was going on with the patient. Unlike the day before, he just wanted to sleep and wasn't talkative at all I decided to follow my nurse gut and placed a call out to the neurosurgeon despite the rest of my assessment being normal. The neurosurgeon ordered a CT head and shortly after we learned, he had another brain bleed that was larger than the first time he came in. He was sent back to the OR for another craniotomy for subdural hematoma evacuation. I have always thought if he was moved out to another room with a nurse who didn't have him the day before, the hematoma would have been caught much later. I am thankful to have helped him and his family that day."