Alex Sanhueza
December 2022
Alex
Sanhueza
,
RN
Emergency Department
West Kendall Baptist Hospital
Miami
,
FL
United States

 

 

 

Alex dedicated himself to staying by her bedside, not only providing nursing management but also because he wanted to make sure that she did not pass away alone.
A 95 yo patient arrived complaining of generalized weakness with a DNR status of “No CPR and no intubation. The patient arrived with bradycardic rhythm which later progressed into, as per primary care RN Alex's notes “polymorphic ventricular tachycardia and then briefly went into asystole with no pulses bilaterally”. The patient spontaneously regained a weak pulse with HR in the 30s. Alex dedicated himself to staying by her bedside, not only providing nursing management but also because he wanted to make sure that she did not pass away alone. It mattered enough to him, that he stayed by her bedside, comforting her with his words and holding her hand. Before she was admitted and taken to an admit bed, she had regained enough consciousness to be able to smile and ask for coffee. Alex went above and beyond what any other nurse would have done, and I believe that his care and dedication were what brought her back from the brink of death.