Averey Rumer
November 2025
Averey
Rumer
,
RN, BSN
Emergency Department
Mercy Health St. Rita's Hospital
Lima
,
OH
United States
I think that she possesses the most valuable trait to a busy department like ours – she is never out for herself, she is not afraid to work hard, and she is proud of the work she does.
I have had the honor of watching Averey grow from a new grad nurse to a hardworking, compassionate, confident, and independent nurse in the department. It is a regular ribbing that Averey will always get the patients who require the most bedside care/total care, and those who are confused/altered.
The past two shifts have been no exception. I had the privilege of seeing Averey provide care to two patients who required patience and compassion, both of which deserve recognition. The first patient was a post op gentleman who was not used to depending on someone else to care for him. She never complained, never got impatient, made a point to keep him laughing, and worked hard to reassure him that, despite the sensitive nature and potentially embarrassing condition he found himself in, he was special, and she was more than proud to provide this care for him during his time of need.
In the department, this is sometimes hard, especially when we are so busy. The patient required a lot of bedside interventions, and when I, as a provider, told her I was ready to do a bedside procedure, even though she had other tasks to complete, she agreed to drop them to help me because it was convenient for me at that time. The second encounter was with an altered patient who required frequent redirection and progressively decompensated. She was attentive, taking special care to engage him during times of lucidity to keep him calm, and was diligent about monitoring his declining condition. She actually even caught a near mistake on my part when I accidentally placed the same order twice.
I note all this with an additional comment on Averey’s attitude and work ethic-you will rarely find her sitting. She walks through the department with purpose and is never lackadaisical in her approach to any task, whether it be her own or a coworker's. She works hard to be encouraging to the patients and her coworkers. Averey is not the kind of nurse that you envision being the charge nurse and moving through management someday. While leadership qualities are very important, I think that she possesses the most valuable trait to a busy department like ours – she is never out for herself, she is not afraid to work hard, and she is proud of the work she does. She is the definition of a team player.
The past two shifts have been no exception. I had the privilege of seeing Averey provide care to two patients who required patience and compassion, both of which deserve recognition. The first patient was a post op gentleman who was not used to depending on someone else to care for him. She never complained, never got impatient, made a point to keep him laughing, and worked hard to reassure him that, despite the sensitive nature and potentially embarrassing condition he found himself in, he was special, and she was more than proud to provide this care for him during his time of need.
In the department, this is sometimes hard, especially when we are so busy. The patient required a lot of bedside interventions, and when I, as a provider, told her I was ready to do a bedside procedure, even though she had other tasks to complete, she agreed to drop them to help me because it was convenient for me at that time. The second encounter was with an altered patient who required frequent redirection and progressively decompensated. She was attentive, taking special care to engage him during times of lucidity to keep him calm, and was diligent about monitoring his declining condition. She actually even caught a near mistake on my part when I accidentally placed the same order twice.
I note all this with an additional comment on Averey’s attitude and work ethic-you will rarely find her sitting. She walks through the department with purpose and is never lackadaisical in her approach to any task, whether it be her own or a coworker's. She works hard to be encouraging to the patients and her coworkers. Averey is not the kind of nurse that you envision being the charge nurse and moving through management someday. While leadership qualities are very important, I think that she possesses the most valuable trait to a busy department like ours – she is never out for herself, she is not afraid to work hard, and she is proud of the work she does. She is the definition of a team player.