"Community nursing assistant going above and beyond"

I was on a joint home visit with community nursing assistant Dawn, to visit a patient to commence new diabetes treatment.

Dawn supports this lady at home and enables this lady to continue to self manage her diabetes with a little bit of assistance from Dawn, enabling this lady to keep her independence as much as possible.

During this joint visit, the patient couldn’t speak more highly of Dawn and how she always goes above and beyond to help. She expressed how grateful for the support and care she receives from Dawn on a regular basis. Working in collaboration with district nursing was a huge benefit to the patient as Dawn was a familiar face and she felt more at ease being in her own home.

Dawn was then able to reassure the patient during switch in treatments and link in with the diabetes team for further support when needed.