Thursday, October 4, 2012

Code!!!!

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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