
Keepsakes Provide Meaning for Patient’s Families
A heartwarming story: how the Heartbeat in a Bottle brings comfort to families whose loved ones passed away from COVID-19 or other causes.
A heartwarming story: how the Heartbeat in a Bottle brings comfort to families whose loved ones passed away from COVID-19 or other causes.
“I truly believe if some of our patients had not come to their appointments – they would not have survived.”
“I am inspired by the positive energy of collaboration within all levels of leadership and with the emphasis on helping nurses at all levels by creating the supportive environment they need to be successful.”
Creating, sustaining and navigating within a thriving healthcare environment requires passion, commitment and a host of other key attributes and skills.
Things are getting better. We now have access to tools to mobilize our intubated patients, new treatment protocols, and we know more about protecting ourselves and our patients.
“There’s somebody there holding your hand. If I would’ve passed away, I wasn’t going to pass away alone because one of God’s children was with me. “
He was soon discharged to a ventilator rehab facility and is now home and doing really well in his follow-ups with SVMH pulmonologists.
Laurie Freed, BSN, RN, CCRN-CSC, an ICU/CCU nurse, was overwhelmed with emotion when vaccines became available because she had seen so many patients succumb to the virus in the winter of 2020-21.
Mylene Peralta, BSN, RN, brought humanity to hardship, calm to calamity, peace where all the pieces seemed to be falling apart.
In collaboration with physicians, two Emergency Department nurses implemented an algorithm to determine which patients could be treated and monitored in the care tents versus which ones would need to be admitted to the hospital.