Kim X Nguyen
March 2022
Kim X
Nguyen
,
RN
Spinal Cord Injury Unit- T2
VA Long Beach Healthcare System
Long Beach
,
CA
United States

 

 

 

… a great nurse of great-heartedness
Recently, for a brief stay, I was an inpatient at the Spinal Cord Injury Disorders Clinic, VA Long Beach Spinal Cord Injury and Disorders (SCI) Center. I received the finest healthcare treatment from knowledgeable, experienced, highly skilled doctors. I also received the very finest advanced nursing care from multiple healthcare specialists, including extraordinary health care and treatment service rendered by Ms. Nguyen, a Registered Nurse who worked to alleviate the suffering experienced by this inpatient staying in the hospital while under treatment. A commemorative plaque located near the National Register of Historic Places in a prestigious building in Washington, D.C. unequivocally states, “nursing is described as an art and science; a heart and a mind.” Due to the vast specialisms and complex skills in the nursing profession, each nurse has specific strengths, and passions ensuring every patient receives the best possible care regardless of who they are. … Making acute treatment decisions, nurses unifying characteristic in every role is the skill and drive that it takes to be an uncommon nurse, combined with compassion, tenderness, patience, responsibility, kindness, and honesty. A proficient, advanced, proactive nurse, like Ms. Nguyen, possessing expert knowledge, and complex decision-making skills, with proven clinical competencies, aid you in your concern for doing things simply out of a desire to help others, which reveals your generous tendencies. Your passion, your kindness (being gentle and considerate), shaped by your character (the content of your personal goodness) in which you practice your credential nursing skills shows your moral practice for other human beings and for patients. Your unselfish quality demonstrates your kindness and your compassion, the person you truly are … a great nurse of great-heartedness. My inpatient stay consisted of several sensitive operational procedures, followed by considerable discomfort, physical uneasiness, minimal anxiousness, and a thing of embarrassment. While I was an inpatient, assisted to bed rest, I was connected/tethered to IV antibiotics, various injections, and various medications enabling my physical recovery. Ms. Nguyen frequently checked on me. She ensured I, the patient, was comfortable, ensuring injections, drips, and associated medical equipment operated as was required. Other nurses, with other pressing patients' schedules, quickly checked on my condition but were not as purposeful or urgent. … Ms. Nguyen is arguably one of a kind, a tireless nurse integral to the Spinal Cord Injury Disorders Clinic, VA Long Beach Spinal Cord Injury and Disorders (SCI) Center, and the Department of Veterans Affairs, promote and improve health care and well-being for all, especially for Veterans.