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| A registered nurse in The Medical Center’s medical surgical unit
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Mary Ford sometimes jokes that she works for her patients and then The Medical Center pays her.
“I love taking care of people and helping them get better,” she said. “I really enjoy my job.”
A registered nurse in The Medical Center’s medical surgical unit for the past six years, Ford works with patients before and after surgery or those for whom surgery is a possibility, such as a person with a gastrointestinal bleed or involved in a car accident.
“I’m responsible for six patients,” she said. “I assess them several times a day and medicate them in a timely manner.”
Ford’s care goes beyond the basics. She believes patients need love and compassion in addition to care.
“I pray with them, hug them. I laugh and joke with patients,” she said. “I want be there for them.”
She also educates them on their illnesses. At times, she and other members of the staff have helped counsel patients.
“Sometimes we’ve had to be their voice to their doctors and family,” she said. “We help them have a say in their medical care.”
Although she knew she wanted to work at The Medical Center, Ford, who received a bachelor of science degree in nursing from Western Kentucky University six years ago and is a mentor for new nurses, didn’t know she would work in med-surg.
“It was through clinical rotation,” she said. “I decided this is what I like. It’s exciting, time flies and you see a lot of different patients with different backgrounds.”
Ford felt called to become a nurse after watching her mother take care of her grandmother as well as her own family. Later, as her grandmother’s condition deteriorated, she received home health care and then had to go into a nursing home.
“My grandmother had Alzheimer’s disease,” she said. “My mother took care of her at home.”
Other people encouraged Ford to continue her studies and career through her father’s diagnosis of mantle cell lymphoma and her daughter’s death from sudden infant death syndrome.
“I took care of (my father) until the end. (When my daughter died) I wanted to give up, but people wouldn’t let me,” she said. “Nurses encouraged me to keep on going. It’s always good for people to encourage you. (God has) got a lot for me share.”source
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posted by blogger @ 01:55
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