DAISY Award for CHMC Main 输液 Center

Successful delivery of quality cancer health care requires the participation of many people: office receptionists, 医疗助理, 实验室人员, 放射学技术, 药剂师, 以及医师扩展器, 等, 跨多个学科. Attempting to rank these contributions according to importance is a fool’s errand at best. But few will object if I make special mention of the dedicated, 训练有素的, 熟练的, and selfless nurses who provide infusion services. 网上买球软件 Medical Center is blessed to have a group of some of the best infusion nurses I have encountered in 30 years of clinical practice. It is my distinct privilege and pleasure to number them among my colleagues and friends.

I could not begin to count the occasions on which patients have returned to my office singing the praises of the infusion nurses, 理由所以. 种类, 富有同情心的, 和主管, these medical professionals turn what could be a grim necessity into a health- and life-affirming experience. Whether they are administering and supervising chemotherapy, or giving immune-based treatments, or providing intravenous hydration, or monitoring blood transfusions, or simply checking the functionality of indwelling venous catheters, the nurses of the 输液 Center perform every day a vital service without which all the treatment plans in the world accomplish nothing. They are in many respects the human face of cancer care, delivered according to all the ideals of the nursing profession. They care for the entire human being, 一个人的总数, not merely the body reposing in the treatment chair. A warm blanket, a plumped pillow, a cool drink, a reassuring hand placed on a shoulder. Because of my own experience, I can readily affirm what others tell me, for I have also received these tender mercies. 也许把它联系起来很奇怪, but I recall with actual fondness the six days scattered over 18 weeks I spent under their care. Royalty would get no less pampering.

That I am not alone in my admiration has quite recently received a broader affirmation. 网上买球软件 has participated for several years in the DAISY program, which recognizes excellence in nursing care, typically in well-deserved individual cases. In 2022, 第一次, the medical center has granted a group award, an acknowledgement that a team of dedicated nursing professionals together exemplify the best in patient care. If you have the opportunity to visit the 输液 Center, you will see a bright green banner proudly hanging above the nursing station, announcing to all that in this place the very best are dedicated to serving the most deserving, which are all persons who have the good fortune—and the good sense—to seek their care here.