Bucky, as she is known to her patients and coworkers, is a very hard working nurse that will go many steps above basic care requirements of the patient.

One thing I really felt about the care she gave my son is she treated him as a "person" and not as a patient. My son was in CCU for 39 days. One morning, my wife and I walked into his room and after seeing him lying on his back hooked to many machines and lines, Bucky had him sitting up in a chair! What a shock! Her goal was to get him up once a day for at least an hour. She watched the forecast and could see a day coming where the weather was going to be 68 degrees. Her plan was to take our son out into the park. We questioned this because of all of the machines, but her reaction was, "We are going to do this!"

A few days later, with two nurses, a nurse's aide and a respiratory person, we began the trip to the park. It looked like a train of equipment and people, but she made it to the park with him. We all spent 10 minutes outside with him before we began the trip back.

Going above and beyond for the patient and making them feel like a person again, that's Bucky!