Nursing Profile

Kathy Murphy, R.N.
Case Manager, WMC Cardiovascular Services

Kathy Murphy immediately felt at home when she joined Wyoming Medical Center’s nursing staff in November 2006.

“After moving 2,500 miles to begin a new career at WMC, it is clear that I made a good choice,” she says.

Coming from a family of medical professionals, Kathy possesses deep-rooted standards for her work. “Excellence in care involves giving the very best care to each and every patient to the limits of your abilities; providing the safest, most effective plan of treatment possible; leaving the hospital at the end of the day, feeling satisfied that your care made a difference; treating each and every patient and their families as you would your own loved one and family,” she says.

In her first year at WMC, the long-term treatment of a trauma patient has proven to Kathy that her new co-workers share her outlook. “The patient and family have already overcome many trials but face many more, including a major procedure,” she says. “The team worked to save this patient and get him to a point of some sense of recovery so that he could be safe and stable with support services to be allowed to discharge home for a short term prior to readmission for further treatment. This was not the work of any one person alone, but a joint collaboration of a truly interdisciplinary team to devise a plan, investigate the practicality and validity of that plan, make sure all the dynamics were in place, set the plan into action and watch that patient being wheeled out of the hospital on his final day with the biggest smile and words of thanks. That is truly being part of a ‘caring team.’”