Karol
Monnet
August 2012
Karol
Monnet
,
BSN, RN, CPN
UROLOGY SURGERY CLINIC
Children's Hospital Colorado
Aurora
,
CO
United States
Karol is an extremely hard working nurse. She’s available when anyone needs her (MA, SA, RN, resident, attending, etc) and is always willing to answer a question or lend a hand. She consistently has a smile on her face and a sunny disposition. She is a joy to work with and a great friend as well. Karol always goes above and beyond!
Karol does extensive teaching with complicated patients, assists all the staff in clinic whenever possible and anticipates the needs of others, she helped to create a support group called MASE (Mitrofanoff, ACE, Support Education), assists the providers with Urodynamics and has trained 2 RNs in how to perform this difficult procedure, she collaborates with the mid-levels to perform biofeedback sessions on children who are having enuresis and in addition she goes up to the inpatient units to do teaching for children who have had complicated urological surgeries and will be going home with catheters or other interventions that are new to the patients. In the last year she worked with the case managers to make sure that the supplies for these patients were ordered prior to discharge and through this collaboration was able to show a decrease in phone calls to the clinic with questions regarding discharge supplies.
She consistently assists in facilitating complicated admissions where the patient arrives to clinic unexpectedly and needs to be admitted for surgery the next day. During these admissions she is able to coordinate the administrative aspects of the admission while providing support and education to the families who often have received unexpected news. On a few occasions she has had to stay late to complete patient care; always putting the patient and their family before herself. She’s wonderful with the families; she spends the time to put them at ease and answer all their questions and frequently parents ask for her by name. The patients love her as well; even stopping by to say hello when they are at another appointment. She takes the time to make the patients feel like they are the only one she’s involved with at that moment. You can tell that she is passionate about caring for the patients and their families and her co-workers everyday she comes to work.
Our department and the pediatric urology population are lucky to have Karol be a part of the team. She, above anyone else, deserves the DAISY Award. Karol exemplifies what it is to be an extraordinary nurse.
Karol does extensive teaching with complicated patients, assists all the staff in clinic whenever possible and anticipates the needs of others, she helped to create a support group called MASE (Mitrofanoff, ACE, Support Education), assists the providers with Urodynamics and has trained 2 RNs in how to perform this difficult procedure, she collaborates with the mid-levels to perform biofeedback sessions on children who are having enuresis and in addition she goes up to the inpatient units to do teaching for children who have had complicated urological surgeries and will be going home with catheters or other interventions that are new to the patients. In the last year she worked with the case managers to make sure that the supplies for these patients were ordered prior to discharge and through this collaboration was able to show a decrease in phone calls to the clinic with questions regarding discharge supplies.
She consistently assists in facilitating complicated admissions where the patient arrives to clinic unexpectedly and needs to be admitted for surgery the next day. During these admissions she is able to coordinate the administrative aspects of the admission while providing support and education to the families who often have received unexpected news. On a few occasions she has had to stay late to complete patient care; always putting the patient and their family before herself. She’s wonderful with the families; she spends the time to put them at ease and answer all their questions and frequently parents ask for her by name. The patients love her as well; even stopping by to say hello when they are at another appointment. She takes the time to make the patients feel like they are the only one she’s involved with at that moment. You can tell that she is passionate about caring for the patients and their families and her co-workers everyday she comes to work.
Our department and the pediatric urology population are lucky to have Karol be a part of the team. She, above anyone else, deserves the DAISY Award. Karol exemplifies what it is to be an extraordinary nurse.