June 2015
Nicole
Ruttencutter
,
RN
Surgical Unit
Kettering Medical Center
Kettering
,
OH
United States

 

 

 

Nicole acted on her "nurse's intuition" and took action to have her patient evaluated, even though symptoms were not yet clear. She took the patient's wife's statements of "my husband just isn't right" very seriously. Based on the evaluation and tests ordered, the patient was transferred to ICU in a timely manner and will hopefully have a good outcome.