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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - This week’s healthcare leader is simply a caregiver astatine Community Regional Medical Center whose ain beingness experiences drove her to spell supra and beyond for a diligent and his family.
Melissa Chester knew a diligent who was astatine the extremity of life -and the keepsake she prepared for his household volition assistance them retrieve him forever.
“There was a devastating encephalon bleed, stroke, thing of that sort, and helium was not going to marque it,” recalls chap caregiver Nicole Brown.
Nurses supply attraction to patients each day, but sometimes the families of those patients request assistance too. A thoughtful enactment of kindness, love, and knowing mightiness astatine slightest easiness the pain.
“I saw a spouse. I saw kids involved. And I cognize what that feels like. And doing thing was not an option,” said Melissa Chester.
Chester is simply a caregiver astatine Community. She had mislaid her ain husband. Her children had mislaid their father, and so, erstwhile she saw different household successful a akin circumstance, she came successful connected her time disconnected and did what she could.
“She had brought canvases and paint, brushes and paint, and she painted this patient's handprint and enactment it connected each of the canvases. She past took each of the household members, painted their hand, I judge successful a antithetic color, enactment it connected the canvas for them, and gave them that keepsake of their household member,” said Brown. “She adjacent utilized a Doppler to grounds his heartbeat truthful the woman could grounds that connected her compartment telephone and person that with her for eternity.”
Nichole Brown works with Melissa arsenic a caregiver astatine Community, and Melissa's actions made an impression.
”Most of the time, if you're successful wellness care, you person a bosom for work regardless. But she goes supra and beyond, and this was a large illustration of that,” said Brown.
“I consciousness similar I've been fixed a acquisition from God done my husband's decease that has brought maine to this spot and I’ve been capable to stock it with others, " Melissa said. “To permission the infirmary without anything, determination has to beryllium something, oregon astatine slightest successful my heart, determination has to beryllium something. So, if I could springiness a glimpse of, like, it's good oregon a glimpse of thing that they tin instrumentality home, a heartbeat, a handprint, a fingerprint, past I'm consenting to bash it immoderate time, whether they're my diligent oregon not."
