Thursday, September 16, 2010

A full week of work in the ER.

Well this week started off pretty good until Tuesday September 14th. I started the day off going to my speech class in the morning from 8-9:15 and got put on call for the ER at about 1 p.m. Well usually when you get put on call you rarely ever get called in so i figured it would be some good time to get caught up on homework. Well as we all know luck never falls my way and i get called in for an emergency at about 4. Anyways i get to the hospital and its a wreck head to head collision vehicle accident which was not a very pretty site i would get into more details but theres alot and pretty gory, long story short it was a fatal accident for one of the patients and the other patient is stable and alive. But wait that's just Tuesday, ok so Wednesday the 15th i go into work at 3:30 and am working on the surgical floor having a pretty decent night. Well again I'm such a lucky person that at 7:30 EMS comes over the scanner with ANOTHER ! head to head collision right outside of Chester and their ETA was 3 minutes, so anyways i run down to the ER and see the accident victim and its 2 males one a 45 year old and one in his 20's so as we precede to ship out the more chronic patient which was the older one he starts to go into cardiac arrest which is not a good thing. So about 23 minutes and 410 compressions with some antibiotics later Mr. Jane Doe is now deceased and thats 2 patients that have passed away this week. If ya'll have any questions about why or how their chances were of living or just anything at all post it

And thats my exciting 2 days not very fun but hey, comes with the title of NURSE.

Jake

1 comment:

csteibel21 said...

Wow, you have such an intense job! I don't think I would be able to handle all of that. Do you ever just freak out or are you always calm? If those two guys were in critical condition wouldn't they try and get them to a St. Louis hospital or something? I mean can Chester hospital handle situations like that?
Keep up the good work though Jake! I know all the people you help really appreciate everything you do. That’s not a job that everyone can handle so it’s awesome that you like it so much and are so good at it. I’m sure it’s an honor for you knowing how many patients you help!