Brianna
Roesel
December 2025
Brianna
Roesel
Fox Valley Technical College
Appleton
,
WI
United States
She consistently goes above and beyond the expectations of a student at clinical by educating her patients, advocating for her patients, and providing a little extra touch of TLC.
Brianna came into the nursing program after working as an LPN for several years in the LPN to ADN Pathway program. She has been taking 3rd semester classes on a part-time basis and entered this semester into her first clinical since her LPN program. She was nervous, but she really has excelled in the clinical setting.
She consistently uses her clinical time to take advantage of all the learning opportunities around her and takes the time to get to know her patients. She is always on top of her patient and knows the latest and greatest of what is going on with her patient. She is not afraid to get into her patient's room and learn from the patient.
She consistently goes above and beyond the expectations of a student at clinical by educating her patients, advocating for her patients, and providing a little extra touch of TLC. Consistently she has been throwing in educational tidbits into her routine care as she knows the little education can go a long way in keeping the patient out of the hospital and back up on their feet.
One such instance, Brianna was caring for a "difficult" patient. The staff mentioned that the patient was not motivated to get out of bed; thus, no staff member had gotten through to the patient on ambulation to help resolve her medical issue. Brianna made it her mission that day to get the patient out of bed. With a lot of encouragement, education and kind directness, Brianna was able to get the patient out of bed and ambulate a small distance and have the patient sit in the chair.
Another instance that happened (and it may have been the same patient, I do not recall), the patient had been hospitalized for several days, and Brianna noticed her hair needed washing. Rather than delegating it to the nursing assistant (who had half of the unit in patients), Brianna took it upon herself to wash the patient's hair and provide a scalp massage.
That little bit of extra TLC goes a long way, and those are the little things that make patients feel better and help them to "get better." I admire Brianna for taking the time to provide this little extra touch because it is easy as a seasoned nurse to forget the little things that matter to the patients.
She consistently uses her clinical time to take advantage of all the learning opportunities around her and takes the time to get to know her patients. She is always on top of her patient and knows the latest and greatest of what is going on with her patient. She is not afraid to get into her patient's room and learn from the patient.
She consistently goes above and beyond the expectations of a student at clinical by educating her patients, advocating for her patients, and providing a little extra touch of TLC. Consistently she has been throwing in educational tidbits into her routine care as she knows the little education can go a long way in keeping the patient out of the hospital and back up on their feet.
One such instance, Brianna was caring for a "difficult" patient. The staff mentioned that the patient was not motivated to get out of bed; thus, no staff member had gotten through to the patient on ambulation to help resolve her medical issue. Brianna made it her mission that day to get the patient out of bed. With a lot of encouragement, education and kind directness, Brianna was able to get the patient out of bed and ambulate a small distance and have the patient sit in the chair.
Another instance that happened (and it may have been the same patient, I do not recall), the patient had been hospitalized for several days, and Brianna noticed her hair needed washing. Rather than delegating it to the nursing assistant (who had half of the unit in patients), Brianna took it upon herself to wash the patient's hair and provide a scalp massage.
That little bit of extra TLC goes a long way, and those are the little things that make patients feel better and help them to "get better." I admire Brianna for taking the time to provide this little extra touch because it is easy as a seasoned nurse to forget the little things that matter to the patients.