“I’ve been an Infusion Room regular for over seven years. It’s like a local coffee shop, only with needles, tubes, and dangling fluid bags,” writes David Kenagy in the Journal of Christian Nursing. “People who need medications pumped into their bloodstreams gather here, but not as hungry diners. Some have nerve disease, others arthritis, and some cancer. Folks in this room understand affliction.”
Enter Nurse Laura.
“Terrific” is the word used by other nurses and patients alike to describe Nurse Laura. What makes her so unique, so universally appreciated?
David Kenagy writes in raw detail how Nurse Laura not only provides compassionate nursing care, but uses her skills to initiate honest conversations with patients about physical and emotional difficulties.
“Nursing care means caring enough to talk toilet. It means Love your neighbor as yourself. It knows, Perfect love casts out fear,” writes Kenagy.
And for some, Nurse Laura is faithful until the end, when the nursing plan is simply being there. She is there for the patient. She is there for the families – sometimes grieving parents. It is the ministry of presence. It is communicating love, and caring, and importance at life’s most significant moments.
It is Essential Nursing 101. And few do it better than Nurse Laura.
Read more about what makes Nurse Laura so special in David Kenagy’s article, “Lessons from the Infusion Room,” from the Journal of Christian Nursing, Jan-Mar 2015.
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