FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - This week’s healthcare hero is a nurse at Community Regional Medical Center whose own life experiences drove her to go above and beyond for a patient and his family.  Melissa Chester knew a patient who was at the end of life -and the keepsake she prepared for his family will help them remember him forever. Click here for more MedWatch Today Click here for Community Medical Centers' homepage “There was a devastating brain bleed, stroke, something of that sort, and he was not going to make it,” recalls fellow nurse Nicole Brown.  Nurses provide care to patients every day, but sometimes the families of those patients need help too. A thoughtful act of kindness, love, and understanding might at least ease the pain. “I saw a spouse. I saw kids involved. And I know what that feels like. And doing nothing was not an option,” said Melissa Chester. Chester is a nurse at Community. She had lost her own husband. Her children had lost their father, and so, when she saw another family in a similar circumstance, she came in on her day off and did what she could. “She had brought canvases and paint, brushes and paint, and she painted this patient's handprint and put it on each of the canvases. She then took each of the family members, painted their hand, I believe in a different color, put it on the canvas for them, and gave them that keepsake of their family member,” said Brown. “She even used a Doppler to record his heartbeat so the wife could record that on her cell phone and have that with her for eternity.” Nichole Brown works with Melissa as a nurse at Community, and Melissa's actions made an impression. ”Most of the time, if you're in health care, you have a heart for service regardless. But she goes above and beyond, and this was a great example of that,” said Brown. “I feel like I've been given a gift from God through my husband's death that has brought me to this place and I’ve been able to share it with others, " Melissa said. “To leave the hospital without anything, there has to be something, or at least in my heart, there has to be something. So, if I could give a glimpse of, like, it's okay or a glimpse of something that they can take home, a heartbeat, a handprint, a fingerprint, then I'm willing to do it any time, whether they're my patient or not."