Nurse’s intuition saves colleague’s life at Ochsner Hospital

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — At Ochsner Hospital, nurses are often the first to notice when something seems off with their patients. But one day, the focus turned inward when a nurse spotted life-threatening symptoms in her colleague.

Kyra Hayes, a nurse at Ochsner, said she wasn’t feeling like herself while at work.

“I hadn’t been sleeping well because I had been ill, and I just did not feel myself,” Hayes said. “When people would ask me questions, I literally could not respond.”…

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