September 2022
Aneeta
Baladi
,
BSN
Resource Support Unit
UnityPoint Health - Meriter
Stoughton
,
WI
USA
I could fill pages lauding her advocacy for my comfort and well-being as well as the effortless way she coordinated the team committed to my care through sheer dint of willful compassion.
I came into Meriter Hospital in Madison, WI, on June 30th, 2022, at my most dire. I was both withdrawing from alcohol and had both mild pancreatitis as well as nascent colitis. Most of the staff in your employ were professional and compassionate in a suitably cursory manner. However, one nurse, Anneta, stands far above not just most staff members but any medical staff member I have met in my 50 years. The following is one example of the myriad I could give you of her selflessness and compassionate treatment of me. Shortly after withdrawing, I experienced severe pain in my upper abdomen. While other staff treated it with a kind of divorced professional courtesy, Nurse Aneeta displayed that rarest of things in people, an honest compassion. Knowing I needed treatment and pain relief, she ceaselessly messaged the doctor on staff at personal risk to her own reputation. She even said as much in a moment of levity. “This doctor is going to wonder who this crazy nurse is!”. Her ability to communicate compassionate humor while generally seeking to serve me as a patient confounded me. Here was a compassionate, positive, articulate person seeking to help a complete stranger with, at best, a checkered reputation. (I had been in multiple medical facilities for detox in just six months alone.) This is but one example. I could fill pages lauding her advocacy for my comfort and well-being as well as the effortless way she coordinated the team committed to my care through sheer dint of willful compassion. It is no stretch to say you have an angel in your employ. From now on, whenever I think of Meriter Hospita,l I will think of an organization that had the care itself to hire such a person. I encourage anyone reading my little words to consider the gravity of a large and eminently capable medical concern employing such a person. In my mind, there is little doubt that Nurse Aneeta is exactly what it should mean to be a Daisy Award winner.