I took over care of a patient from Nurse Kaylynn. During the report, Kaylynn told me that she walked into the patient's room at one point overnight and found the patient crying. Kaylynn spoke with the patient and determined the issue. The patient told her that she and her spouse relied on the food bank for their food twice a month. The patient stated that she was so worried that she wouldn't be able to make it to the food bank this week due to being sick and the snow on the ground. This would leave her and her husband without food for the next two weeks. Kaylynn consulted a social worker so that they could give the patient a list of resources for the area.

Upon discharging the patient that day, we were talking, and she mentioned that Kaylynn had told her about connections to a different food bank in the area. That very day that the patient was discharged, Kaylynn had a box of food from the food bank delivered straight to the patient's front door. The patient was very grateful for all the care she received, but Nurse Kaylynn went above and beyond for her. Not only did she have the food delivered, but she also took away the patient's anxiety and grief over not being able to feed herself and her husband for the next two weeks.