From patient to power: Jeany Camden, LPN, turns the trauma into sympathetic care

When Jeany Camden, LPN, was only 11 years old, she spent six shocking weeks in a hospital with a cracked worm appendix – and this experience almost broke her. Ignored by nurses, fighting with a high fever, after which developing MRSA, she left the hospital not only with scars, but with a mission.

“I want to be better,” says Camden. “I don’t want to be the person for someone else.”

Today, the oath to shape every decision he makes as a nurse Good Samarital Society – ViliscaLong -term care center in a compact western city of Iowa. Known for compassion, relentless work ethics and deep love for her inhabitants, Camden is a vivid light within the occupation during which burning can darken even the strongest hearts.

And for nearly 30 years of transformation of empathy into motion, she was recognized as a nurse of the week.

I like my people. I like all of them.

The facility within the small town of Camden serves just over 1,100 inhabitants-but its influence is way deeper than the numbers. As a pacesetter of the Program for the standard and improvement of the middle’s performance and its efforts in the sphere of infection, he played a key role in raising care all over the world.

Her secret? Treating one and all like them – since it happens.

“I think that the most important part of nursing is to make people feel like people, not something less,” he says.

One of its inhabitants, 85-year-old John Thomas, says that there aren’t many visitors-but Camden all the time has time to stop and admire their latest crocheted masterpieces. “She is cheerful,” he says with a smile. “This place was great. All nurses are friendly, but she stands out.”

Administrator Mike Early agrees. “Jeanny is one of those people who really talk to the resident and make sure that everything we do is for a proper reason. I regret that I didn’t have her anymore.”

Master in some ways

The influence of Camden goes beyond the bed. Recently, she was appointed by the National Master of Nursing, distinguished by employees who embodiment the values of the great society of the Samaritan. For someone who doesn’t concentrate, the award was a shock.

“I’m not a headlight,” he says with amusing. “I cried. I was rather shocked. It makes you feel good. We have great staff here and we show it every day, but it just shows the world that we are good people.”

Her team agrees with all my heart.

“It gives 110% every day without a test,” says the supervisor of the activities Emma Lee, who nominated Camden for the award. “There is Christmas here.”

RN Phoenix Gaunt adds: “I don’t even know if I can express how many reasons why Camden deserves this prize. She is a great team player. She is ready to do everything that he can for residents, employees – everyone.”

Our Florence Nightingale

This devotion was not unnoticed by her colleagues – or the community. Kelly Fletcher, a business office coordinator at the power, says Camden is known.

“He is our Florence Nightingale,” says Fletcher. “Everyone is so grateful that we are here and we do a good job that we do. And Jeanny is a large part of it.”

Camden’s heritage is built not only on the years of service, but in countless small moments that make its inhabitants feel seen, protected and cared.

“They support me. They have been for years,” he talks about his colleagues. “This means the world for me. This means that I do something well. It means that I have influenced someone’s life.”

And in a possible way Camden doesn’t stop within the near future.

“The work is not over,” he says. “I will continue to inspire my team to ensure the highest quality of care.”

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