San Juan Regional Health

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    Rebekah Stamets               Benjamin Stamets                 Dilan Jones

Three San Juan Regional Medical Center nurses are now DAISY® Award winners, honored for the compassionate care they show our patients every day, as well as for the following stories of how they’ve gone above and beyond to help those in need.

Rebekah and Benjamin Stamets are nurses in the ICU. They both played an integral role as part of the care team for an 80-year-old patient at the end of his life. The patient’s family submitted a nomination after seeing Rebekah and Benjamin working diligently with their father every day, doing what they could to ensure his comfort in his last days. They were also touched by Rebekah and Benjamin’s care and concern for the family as they took the time to help them understand what was going on.

“Everything that was happening was new and frightening to us. Through it all Rebekah and Benjamin were there. They both patiently explained things to us, sometimes more than once, until we understood what was going to happen,” the nomination said. “They both obviously cared deeply for Dad. Their tireless, devoted and skilled passion for our Dad's wellbeing made a huge impression on our family.”

“It feels like a great honor that someone would recognize me. We just try to take care of people like we would want our own family members taken care of,” Rebekah said. 

“It is very meaningful. I am glad my hard work has made a difference in somebody’s life,” Benjamin said.

Thank you, Rebekah and Benjamin, for your compassion, kindness and patience. While end-of-life care is difficult, your willingness to go above and beyond for this patient and his family made all the difference in their time of need. 

Dilan Jones is a nurse in the Childbirth Center. She was nominated by her patient who had been on the unit for two days. This patient had been induced twice, but nothing was working. Due to the medication she’d been given, she was bed-bound and it was really starting to take a toll on her mental state. Dilan came on shift for the day and immediately took charge, laying out a plan to help her patient feel more like herself until she could get a c-section. 

“This nurse made a difference in my stay in literally 20 minutes,” the patient said. “She let me feel like a person again.”

Dilan let the patient get up and shower while she cleaned up her room, then they took a walk outside to the Healing Garden.

“As a nurse myself, I know how hard it is to make every patient feel like their care is our main priority. But for her to come in and change my attitude about my situation in less than 30 minutes…. That is a talent I aspire to,” the patient said in her nomination.

“This is the highest honor for a nurse,” Dilan said of her award. “I’m so thankful I get the opportunity to be with patients and make a difference in people’s lives while they make a difference in my life.”

Thank you, Dilan, for knowing just what your patient needed after going through a long and tiring experience. Your ability to prioritize her care and make her feel seen helped her get in the right frame of mind to bring her baby into the world.  

Say thank you to a nurse today by nominating them for a DAISY Award at www.sanjuanregional.com/daisy or by scanning the QR code below.