Grand Rounds at HSC, Nurses Week

During a visit back to the NICU after Madelyn's newborn follow-up appointment, I ran into Doris Sawatsky-Dickson, the nurse clinician for the NICU. She was organizing a Grand Rounds for the nurses during nursing week on May 14th. The focus was Congential Diaphragmatic Hernia and how nurses are invovled from fetal assessment to discharge and follow-up. I agreed to bring Madelyn as a model baby.

Back at NICU, John, is the award winning, Respiratory Therapist Specialist. He was part of the transfer team for Madelyn. He remembered Madelyn and confirmed the fact that she was the first transfer on the Jet ventilator. They have done a few more since then.

Marie Hadfield, Nurse Stonogropher. She was from fetal assessment. She did all of my ultrasounds and gave be great information and so much support. She was the first presenter of the meeting. I just love her she is so great!

The whole hour was based on Madelyn's case. Here was a summary of her tests. I new there had been many, but not that many. If you look closely you can see that she had 53 blood gases. I found it interesting, yet it brought back many of those uncertain feelings about the survival of your baby.

I am glad that Madelyn's case can be used for more education and hopefully help with the care of future CDH cases at HSC. It was also nice to see all the nursing staff that we got to know and to get back to see them, and I was allowed to formally thank them for all the help, support and encouragment they were to Madelyn and us as parents. Madelyn was a little restless during the talk, and then feel asleep when it was my turn to talk, but she awoke just as I was done and so I brought her up to give a little wave. She was great, and loved all the attention she was getting.