As a palliative care provider, I am honored to work with nurses such as Tasha, as I know my patients will receive the utmost care and compassion.

Tasha was caring for a patient in the TSICU who, unfortunately, sustained life-threatening injuries in a motor vehicle accident along with his wife, who was also hospitalized in another unit at York Hospital. Palliative care was consulted to discuss goals of care with the family, and it was decided to palliatively extubate the patient and allow him to pass peacefully.

Tasha helped to arrange with the staff on T3 to bring the patient’s wife in her hospital bed, as she was immobile from surgery, to her husband’s room. Tasha rearranged his ICU room so that the two beds could be side by side and the couple could be together throughout the process of extubating and natural death. She was incredibly attentive and caring to the entire family and took over the care of the patient’s wife so that she could be by her husband’s side and still receive the care she required as well. Despite having her own heavy ICU assignment, Tasha coordinated with T3 all the wife’s medical care and monitored her health so she could attend to her husband during his transition.

The kindness and compassion that Tasha provides to her patients is unmatched.