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Sandy Allen-Dansby remembers when her first patient died. “I was 19 years old, working on a med-surg floor at Virginia Beach General, and I just cried and cried,” she says. When her floor was closed for renovations in the early 90s, Allen-Dansby was transferred to an oncology unit.

“I didn’t want to go,” she says. “I thought, they’re all dying up here and I didn’t want to deal with a lot of death.” Today she’s a hospice nurse at Sentara Hospice House. What changed?

“I discovered how much of a difference I can make,” she says simply.

For those who work in end-of-life care, healing may be relative, but it’s also very real.

Terri Coleman, a Sentara hospice nurse who does home care, explains: “Even though our patients don’t get better physically, they can get that healing emotionally or even spiritually.”

Often the process begins by offering patients new ways to think about their condition. “When I have a new admission and I present the home program, I always tell them we are not about dying,” says Coleman. “Hospice has such a stigma – oh, they just give you morphine and you go to sleep and you die,” she says. “That’s not it at all. We want our patients comfortable, yes, but we want them to have a good quality of life too.”

Allen-Dansby agrees. “We’re not concentrating on the last day because we don’t know when that will be. Instead we take every day as it comes and enjoy it to the fullest. I think they’re making advances in pain management and now patients can be cared for at home or someplace like the Hospice House and not spend their last days on earth in a hospital.”

Sentara Hospice House patients enjoy large, sunny rooms, a patio and butterfly garden, and plenty of space for families to gather. Medical equipment is readily accessible to nurses, but there’s nothing institutional about the way the place feels.

Coleman’s patients are able to remain in their homes and soon begin to regard her much like a family member, she says. “We do fingernails and have makeup parties, color, talk about books or current events. We bring the outside world in.”

Sometimes the humor can veer toward the morbid, says Coleman, like the patient who told her he was going to be the Grim Reaper for Halloween. “But it’s their way of coming to terms with their situation.”

Patients and their families look forward to her visits, she says. “Hospice nurses are not dismal. We’re a bunch of happy people. We want to bring life into the home.”

All nurses are trained to read patients for non-verbal insights, but end-of-life caregivers perfect that skill.

“Sometimes there is pain that you can’t touch,” says Coleman. “There may be a lot of emotional stuff there that no amount of medicine will help. We don’t take the place of our social workers or chaplains, but we’re in the home and can’t really say put that issue on hold till the chaplain gets here.

“So, it’s what do I need to do to make you more comfortable right now? Is it reassurance or touch? This is their last journey – we don’t get do-overs. We have to get it right the first time.”

Allen-Dansby believes helping patients find that degree of comfort can be as important as the physical care she provides. “There may be something bothering them, something they need to take care of, and if you can help them identify what that is, that’s a good thing.”

Years ago when one of her first patients was having problems breathing, he asked his wife to place a call to his sister, says Allen-Dansby. “He said he was seeing a light,” she says. His wife brushed aside his request, assuring him that everything was fine and they’d call once they got home.

“But if we deny that death is occurring, we miss something,” says Allen-Dansby. She asked her patient what he wanted his sister to know. “Tell her our parents are here and my grandson is here and everything is going to be okay,” he replied.

“That doesn’t happen very often, but when you’re caring for someone, you have to be ready to stop, listen and be in tune with what they need and how you can help them,” she says.

The man passed away before he was able to speak with his sister, says Allen-Dansby. “But he got some peace from being able to tell someone his message.”

Years of hospice nursing have had an impact on the way she looks at life, she says. “When you go to work and have two patients pass on your shift, then go home to your family who are all smiles as you come in the door, it makes you appreciate

life a little bit more. It helps you slow down a bit, be thankful for the things that are important and let go of the things that aren’t.”

Christine Arbogast doesn’t work with hospice patients, but as the nursing manager at Virginia Oncology Associates, she often deals with loss. “You have to have the mentality to take care of people who you know might not make it, and unfortunately that’s a lot of our patients,” she says

The field can be heart-wrenching, says Arbogast, but the relationships she’s built over the years have made it more than worthwhile.

“We see a lot of these patients every day or every week,” she says. “You know their family, they know yours, you share stories. You celebrate their remissions or if they’re not doing well, you are there to hold their hand, hug them and help them through the end of life. They’re vulnerable, they’re scared and sometimes they feel hopeless. And you’re able to step in and walk them through it so they know they aren’t alone.

“It’s a meaningful thing because you’ve really given something beyond yourself to somebody else. It’s just a special bond.”Arbogast had one patient she took care of for 8 years before he died. “He’d bring me jokes and cartoons when he came in every week,” she says. “I still have six of them hanging behind my desk and I think of him often. He and his wife gave my

Sandy Allen-Dansby, a Sentara Hospice House nurse, prepares a bed for a patient. “I feel it’s an honor that I get to be here for my patients, to love on them and support them emotionally,” she says. “I enjoy every moment I have with them for however long that is.”

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daughter a beautiful little blanket when she was born nine years ago. That blanket is hanging on by threads, but she loves it. That’s how impactful these relationships are.”

While Arbogast mourns the death of her patients, she’s consoled by knowing they’re no longer in pain, she says. “It may be rationalizing, but I can look at the patients I took care of and review their life, their accomplishments, the fact that they were adults who lived a full life and that helps with the sadness.

“Every now and then I run into a nurse who isn’t a good fit for this field and I’ve wondered to myself it it’s just a protective mechanism on their part so they don’t have to feel too much. But I think that when you put that wall up, you’re taking something away from your patient, and really from your experience as a nurse.”

For Allen-Dansby, working with this very vulnerable patient population serves as both a reminder and a reason to continue caring. “The reality is all of us are going to pass away,” she says. “I’d want someone to be there for me, supporting me emotionally, loving on me, so that’s what I’m going to keep giving.”

Caring for an end-of-life patient goes beyond relieving physical discomfort. This is a field of nursing where touch and reassurance are crucial

nursing tools.

Celebrating OurNurses 2016

Most of us can point to a nurse who has touched our lives in an important way, bringing healing, alleviating pain,

offering practical hope and much-needed comfort. A nurse is a compassionate lifeline, an irreplaceable caregiver,

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If hotels guests can hang Do Not Disturb signs, why can’t hospital patients, wondered Gloria Gozon. “So I created what I call Zzzzz man,” she says. The little blue signs are affixed to patients’ doorways when they request them, telling nurses to do shift change reports outside the room instead of bedside when the patient is sleeping.

Gozon, who works nights on an oncology floor, is fiercely protective of her patients and always thinking of new ways to care for them, says Donna Baybay, one of many Sentara Leigh nurses Gozon has mentored over the years. “She will not compromise any safety procedure, and if she sees a bed alarm go off, she’ll drop everything she’s doing and run. But what struck me from the very beginning of working with her is how very knowledgeable she is – she’s like a walking book.”

Born in the Philippines, Gozon watched helplessly as her brother fell ill and died at 16 years of age. “We grew up in a poor family and he was very sick for a long time,” remembers Gozon. Nursing school equipped her with the skills to care for people like her brother and also gave her a way to help her parents financially.

When healthcare recruiters from the States offered Gozon a job in

New Jersey, she accepted. “It was the first time I had seen snow, I was so excited,” says Gozon. In 1991, she relocated to Virginia Beach for a job with Sentara Leigh.

In her 25 years with the hospital, she’s gained a reputation for nurturing young nurses and nudging them into leadership roles. “If

you have a question or need help, you never see impatience on her face,” says Baybay, “even if you ask her to explain something over and over again. She’s there until you get it.”

Gozon says it goes back to something a nurse manager taught her years ago. “She said, ‘Don’t eat your young.’ And it’s something I understood because I’ve been there, I know exactly how that new nurse feels, especially coming from another part

of the world.” The energetic Gozon is a familiar face at volunteer church and

community events and is part of Sentara’s No One Dies Alone program. “Some patients near the end of life don’t have family members or their family can’t be there with them in the hospital,” says Gozon. So on her days off, Gozon occasionally receives an alert and slips quietly into the room of a dying patient.

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Meg Collins has a different definition of retirement than most of us – just ask the hundreds of people she screens, educates and encourages at community health events in Hampton Roads.

Rich Loftus, employer relations director at Bon Secours, first spotted Collins in action at a health

fair in a disadvantaged neighborhood. “It was an ‘aha’ moment for me,” he says. “She inspired me to create a position within Bon Secours for a nurse whose work would focus on screening and educating outside the clinic and hospital.”

Most nurses are hired because they fit a job description. Collins was hired to be the job description.

You’ll find her screening on loading docks, in break rooms, at 50-member cinderblock churches and in corporate board rooms, says Loftus, and this wide variety of worksites serves as an apt reflection of her very diverse career.

Collins started a three-year nursing program in 1968 at what was then simply Norfolk General. “We lived in dorms there and had a curfew at 8 o’clock in the evening, with study hall until 10 o’clock,” recalls Collins. Dorm mothers enforced lights out.

After graduation, she spent several years in the U.S. Navy working

in surgical pediatrics before transitioning out of the service to a hospital on Long Island. “I thought New York sounded like fun; I had never been there before,” says Collins. Her adventurous nature was intrigued when one of the doctors she worked with talked about his summer volunteer experiences on an Indian reservation in Arizona.

“I decided to go out for an interview at the Indian Health Services hospital in Window Rock and they accepted me,” Collins says. “It was culture shock.”

Most patients only spoke Navajo, so hospital staff at the 45-bed facility worked through interpreters. And in respect to Navajo culture, when a medicine man would arrive to perform a healing

ceremony for a patient, Collins had to stop whatever procedure she was doing and leave the room. “Sometimes we had to stay out for 6 or 8 hours,” she says.

As much as she loved her work, Collins missed Virginia and came home to jobs at a children’s hospital, in family practice and in long-term care. “It was like coming full circle,” she says.

Though she’s no longer nursing full time, Collins isn’t quite ready to close out her storied career, especially with the enviable terms of her newest job. “I have the pure enjoyment of being able to do the skills, but I’m not tied to all the paperwork,” she laughs.

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Registered Nurse, Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center

Too many patients were walking into her infusion center with aplastic anemia and myelodysplastic syndrome, disorders that affect the blood and bone marrow, and Eden Biskey wanted to do something about it. “You get to know these patients, you get to know their families, it gets personal,” she says.

So she organized a walk to raise money for research, and on a chilly Saturday morning last November, 75 people circled a track at Sentara Williamsburg Regional Medical Center.

“The original goal was to raise about $200, but the walk kept growing and we had nurses, patients, their families, even people from Richmond and Virginia Beach show up,” says Biskey. “We ended up collecting almost $6000 and that’s money that will go straight to AA/MDS research. I had never done anything like that at all before and thank heavens it went well because I was a wreck,” she shares.

“Eden is truly amazing, she has this passion, she wants to make things happen and she’s all about her patients,” says Marilyn Saparito, Biskey’s manager.

Biskey spent the first half of her nursing career working with

progressive care and cardiac step-down patients on the night shift because those hours worked best for her young children.

“As the children grew older, I wanted to move to days, so I interviewed for this job,” says Biskey. “I didn’t really know a lot about IV therapy then, but this has turned out to be one of the most

rewarding jobs I’ve ever had. You have time with your patients, you have time to do education with them, you have time to support them emotionally.”

If that means singing to patients to calm fraying nerves, Biskey lets loose. “Unfortunately, I don’t have a good voice, but it sure takes their mind off of the needle,” she says.

“I’ve even had patients bring in their dogs before. I had one fellow who was getting a blood transfusion and he was very sick. I knew he wasn’t going to live much longer. His wife kept going out to the car to walk their dog; I told her to just bring the dog in.”

As the small beagle mix lay beside Biskey’s patient, she watched his face relax. “It made him feel so much better to have his dog there to pet. I came to work the next morning and learned he’d died in the night. I’m so glad I did that for him.”

Sometimes nursing means employing an array of high tech tools, sometimes it means offering an extra touch of empathy. Eden Biskey is master of both.

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Rebecca Samples Registered Nurse Resource PoolRizza Mejia Unit Coordinator Sentara Leigh Hospital Rob Nurse - Oncology Children's Hospital of the King's

DaughtersRobin McClelland Team Coordinator - Imaging/Cardiology

Nursing Sentara Obici HospitalRuth, Eliane, Bonnie LPN Bon Secours Sabrina Lane Registered Nurse Intensive Care UnitSarah McDonald RN, CPAN Sentara Virginia Beach

General, PACUSarah Mooney Head nurse Internists of ChurchlandSarah Zuidema RN Sentara Princess Anne Labor and

DeliverySharon Riddick RN, Director of Clinical Operations of

Hampton Roads Bon Secours Home CareSheryl Bailey R.N. BSN, CWOCN, Certifi ed Wound

Ostomy Continence Nurse Maryview Medical CenterShirley Adjoudad RN Depaul Medical Center, 3SOUTHShirley Dowdy Care Coordinator Sentara Leigh Hospital Stacey Doxey RN General Intensive Care UnitStacie Clarke BSN, RN Nursing Supervisor Sentara Obici

HospitalSusan Argus Outcomes Manager- Care Management

Depaul Medical CenterSusan T hatcher Nurse Virginia Beach GeneralTalia Tennant RN, Clinical Care Lead Bon Secours Harbour

View EndoscopyTaquania Washington Nurse Manager Sentara Leigh

Hospital Teresa Patterson Nurse Practitioner Sentara Virginia

Beach General Hospital Terri Gillen RN- Cardiac Sentara Careplex HospitalThe Entire Nursing Staff at Sentara Obici Hospital RNs

and LPNs Sentara Obici HospitalTheresa Engbersen RN-BC Sentara Williamsburg Regional

Medical CenterTiffany Parker RN-Unit Coordinator Sentara Heart HospitalTina Boyles LPN, Authorization Coordinator Optima HealthTina Harris MA Nansemond Suffolk Family PracticeTricia Christoffer Registered Nurse 2W Cardiac Unit-

Sentara Virginia Beach HospitalValerie Sommer Director of Nursing Harbour View ED/

Maryview Foundation ClinicVerna Gapuz BSN, RN Children's Hospital of the King's

DaughtersWendy Mitchell Team Leader/ Educator Sentara CarePlex

HospitalYvonne Edomonson Registered Nurse Sentata Norfolk

General, Inpatient Rehabilitation UnitYvonne Smith Unit Manager, RN Maryview Nursing Care

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2016 NURSE NOMINATIONS

Celebrating Nurses Week Around The

World

In China, hospital nurses take time out to recite the Florence Nightingale Pledge, while in Australia,

a government spokesman announces that country’s Nurse of

the Year.

England holds two offi cial services: in

London’s Westminster Abbey, a symbolic

lamp from the Nurses’ Chapel is placed on the

Abbey’s alter, and at St. Margaret’s Church

in Hampshire, the burial place of Florence Nightingale, a service commemorating her

legacy is held.


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Thank you to all of the nurses at Chesapeake Regional Healthcare - for yourcommitment, your compassion and the unbelievable personal care and

attention you give to each and every patient you serve.

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