Making Last Wishes Come True

By Lucy M. Pritchett

Losing ii of her trouble solid unit of measurement members to cancer moved Melissa Pritchett's life inward a dissimilar direction. 


Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 alter of heart. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 broken heart. Either i tin mail y'all downward a dissimilar path inward life. Melissa Pritchett’s turning indicate came from a broken pump when her granddaddy in addition to brother-in-law both died of cancer inside 3 months of each other. She took tending of both of them.




“I held my brother-in-law inward my arms piece he was dying of encephalon cancer,” Melissa says. “He was 37. I was 26 years one-time in addition to had no stance how dying worked. That the bodily organs get down to nigh down. All I could create was comfort him in addition to tell him stories.”

‘Be the alter y'all desire to come across inward the world’ became her rallying cry, in addition to Melissa applied to nursing schoolhouse the adjacent week.

“I couldn’t handgrip the grief. I wanted to brand changes inward the agency oncology patients were treated.”

Melissa doesn't hear doing whatever necessary to proceed her patients happy. 


By 2011 she had earned her bachelor's flat from Indiana University Southeast in addition to a grouping of initials afterwards her name: RN, BSN, OCN. So began her career. Now, at historic menstruation 35, she is the daytime accuse nurse amongst the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at University of Louisville Hospital, business office of KentuckyOne Health.

Taking tending of oncology patients is quite a switch from Melissa’s previous seat equally assistant full general managing director for Marriott Hotels. But, she says, she has turned her hospitality skills to infirmary skills.

“I form of run the unit of measurement similar a hotel. I don’t process the patients equally patients, simply rather equally guests. I ever endeavor to brand their rest better. They don’t desire to survive there, in addition to anything I tin create to give them a ameliorate day, I desire to create that if it is inward my power.”

She gets to know her patients in addition to their families. They are much to a greater extent than to her than a room break or a disease.

Her enthusiasm for going higher upward in addition to beyond for her “guests” has included everything from stopping to purchase a outflow soda for i to setting upward a call back conversation amongst vocalist in addition to thespian Donny Osmond for another. She has also managed to adjust ii weddings in addition to educate the scene for a proposal.

“I desire to brand their final wishes happen,” she says. “I am really persistent inward making those wishes come upward true.

“The affair I didn’t create good was give my brother-in-law a practiced decease because I didn’t know how. But immediately I larn do-overs. I larn to aid my patients larn the best out of their end-of-life sense in addition to aid them accept a to a greater extent than peaceful death. Honoring my patients is my passion.”

Establishing practiced relationships amongst the patients has larn an of import business office of her project that she values. 


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