I am not back, as there are only a few who actually read this, just felt compelled to comment. Not counting all of the Russians and others...
I grew up in a time that there was no 9-1-1. If you had an emergency, you called a 7 digit number, or if it was really an "urgent" emergency you dialed "0" for the operator and asked to be connected. Now everything is a 10 digit number, unless it is a 3 digit emergency call. And now there is the 4-1-1, 5-1-1, and I think the 2-1-1 system in the US.
Just a Hmmmm...
Sunday, August 05, 2012
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Trust...
Every time I go to work, people initially trust me! That's an awesome feeling! You see, I'm a nurse and I work in the ED...
I always initially trust the patients that come into my care, will advocate for them, try to address there immediate needs...
However, occasionally that trust is broken. When you are "allergic" to every medicine/drug except the one specific one you want... my eyebrow will be raised. And when you tell me that there is only one specific medicine/drug that will work for you... and this your 4th visit in a week...both my eyebrows will be raised. But I will still attempt to start your IV, cutting off the other hospitals ID band to access a vein, so you can get your medicine/drug... I will even use the US (ultrasound) to identify that small vein in your arm to be able to give you that relief that you need!
But when I get a critical patient, that is literally trying to die...
And I get a little busy...
When you activate the call light, please, please don't have an attitude... with me or the person that responds to your request... especially when it is for food (we are not a cafeteria), a pillow or blanket (we are not a hotel), or more pain medicine (when you just got a dose 5 minutes ago and you have 15 more minutes till you can have another) when you know the time-frame for more!
Some of the best times I have ever experienced in the ED is when a critical patient has the attention of not only most the staff... but most of the other patients in the ED! Seems when the other patients realize that a person is on the verge of dying, and every person in the ED is trying to save there life... often most of the patients are gaping... that's when the requests become almost non-existent!
So, please trust me again... if it seams that you are being ignored, you're probably stable, not going to die of starvation, hard stretcher, or chilliness of the room!
But a few will still complain... oh well... one million complaints will not even to begin to affect the feeling of just one saved life... or the gratitude's/compliments of those families!
Peace!
I always initially trust the patients that come into my care, will advocate for them, try to address there immediate needs...
However, occasionally that trust is broken. When you are "allergic" to every medicine/drug except the one specific one you want... my eyebrow will be raised. And when you tell me that there is only one specific medicine/drug that will work for you... and this your 4th visit in a week...both my eyebrows will be raised. But I will still attempt to start your IV, cutting off the other hospitals ID band to access a vein, so you can get your medicine/drug... I will even use the US (ultrasound) to identify that small vein in your arm to be able to give you that relief that you need!
But when I get a critical patient, that is literally trying to die...
And I get a little busy...
When you activate the call light, please, please don't have an attitude... with me or the person that responds to your request... especially when it is for food (we are not a cafeteria), a pillow or blanket (we are not a hotel), or more pain medicine (when you just got a dose 5 minutes ago and you have 15 more minutes till you can have another) when you know the time-frame for more!
Some of the best times I have ever experienced in the ED is when a critical patient has the attention of not only most the staff... but most of the other patients in the ED! Seems when the other patients realize that a person is on the verge of dying, and every person in the ED is trying to save there life... often most of the patients are gaping... that's when the requests become almost non-existent!
So, please trust me again... if it seams that you are being ignored, you're probably stable, not going to die of starvation, hard stretcher, or chilliness of the room!
But a few will still complain... oh well... one million complaints will not even to begin to affect the feeling of just one saved life... or the gratitude's/compliments of those families!
Peace!
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Life...
There comes a point in everyone's life that they take a pause, look back, look forward, and make a choice.
That time came to me today.
Hard to take the news, but in retrospect it is not worse than things I have already experienced. So as I look back, I have to laugh! I thought those things were bad and that I would never live through them, but I did! So here I am.
And as bad as you think I am, as bad as I have been, and as bad as I really am... I am still here. Too bad! Eh!?
Life continues, it goes on.
As someone that once contemplated, I will once again laugh! I laugh at the company that made a decision that cost them hundreds of dollars a month, I laugh at the people that have no idea what there decision has set into being! I have made decisions myself, and the events that those decisions have caused, I am truly amazed!
So this is my last post for some time, because I need to become silent. If you know me, and need to talk to me, you already know how to reach me...
Good night.
That time came to me today.
Hard to take the news, but in retrospect it is not worse than things I have already experienced. So as I look back, I have to laugh! I thought those things were bad and that I would never live through them, but I did! So here I am.
And as bad as you think I am, as bad as I have been, and as bad as I really am... I am still here. Too bad! Eh!?
Life continues, it goes on.
As someone that once contemplated, I will once again laugh! I laugh at the company that made a decision that cost them hundreds of dollars a month, I laugh at the people that have no idea what there decision has set into being! I have made decisions myself, and the events that those decisions have caused, I am truly amazed!
So this is my last post for some time, because I need to become silent. If you know me, and need to talk to me, you already know how to reach me...
Good night.
Friday, December 16, 2011
Just in case someone still reads this...
If you are ever arrested and brought to jail... do not become so uncooperative and combative that you get "tazed!"
It can lead to a cardiac arrest...
A few days in the ICU will tell if any type of recovery is possible. But between the First Responders, EMS, and the ED... this patient survived to get to the ICU!
It can lead to a cardiac arrest...
A few days in the ICU will tell if any type of recovery is possible. But between the First Responders, EMS, and the ED... this patient survived to get to the ICU!
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Monday, November 28, 2011
And then God laughs when you tell Him your plans...
I rode down a street, which turned into a road. This road then turned into a Highway...
There was a mountain in front of me for the first part, it somehow drifted off to my left, no longer an obstacle, as I continued down the road.
And as hard as I searched, random turns to the left, then right...after almost an hour, I finally saw it.
I found the end of a road. A dead end. Luckily there was a sign that warned me, so I turned away from it and strarted home. But I found it!
I know where it is...
There was a mountain in front of me for the first part, it somehow drifted off to my left, no longer an obstacle, as I continued down the road.
And as hard as I searched, random turns to the left, then right...after almost an hour, I finally saw it.
I found the end of a road. A dead end. Luckily there was a sign that warned me, so I turned away from it and strarted home. But I found it!
I know where it is...
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