I swear this was the worst week of my life. Not only were the shifts
really busy, and then the glucose patient situation, not to mention the perforated bowel patient last night, but this morning, another situation happened. We were in the middle of giving
report, and the techs went running down the hall yelling for a nurse.
It wasn't my patient, but the other nurses were farther away. I jumped
out of my seat (and apparently over another chair, which the other
nurses love to mock me for...my athletic abilities) and ran to the
room. Another nurse was right behind me. Neither one of us knew
anything about the patient. As we arrived in the room, we noticed the
patient was a gray pallor and unresponsive. We tried the sternal rub
with no response...we checked his vitals and glucose levels and
everything was normal. He had a pulse so we called an assistance
please.
He had pulled out his IV and so we quickly attempted to
get one in before all the MDs, Rapid Response, and everyone else
arrived. Within two minutes, the room was packed with people, and since
it wasn't my patient, I stayed in the hallway running for supplies and
pretty much doing anything that needed to be done, but staying out of
the way at the same time. They ended up intubating the patient at the
bedside on the floor and moving the patient to the ICU. What a nerve
wrecking ending to a work week.
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