#traumanurse

Rezisztens: - Ádám! Mi az a vmi amivel a nénikék járkálnak a kórteremben?

Én: - Csaknem a járókeretre gondolsz?

Rezisztens: - Jajjj, hát tényleg! Köszi!

So it was a pretty decent 4th of July because I knew everything will happen after the fireworks and I worked mid-shift/2nd shift. We were overbooked in day shift because our damn director decided it was okay to book elective cases so we had our dayshift staff that volunteered to work the holiday & then our 1st call and 3rd call staff. I was 2nd call & they asked me if it was okay to skip me because the 3rd call nurse is willing to come in because her surgeon booked an elective spine case and of course I said yes, use me as back-up or else I would be doing a 16 hour shift 0630 AM to 11 PM. oh hell no lol. So when I came in for my shift, there were only 4 cases left over & I found out there’s no charge nurse so I automatically became charge nurse for the holiday...OH FML. 

Well lucky for me, we finished our cases and by 9 pm we decided to watch the fireworks in the rooftop of our hospital. IT WAS BEAUTIFUL.

Then, in perfect timing, by almost 10 PM...our trauma pagers went off...

EMERGENCY TRAUMA ASSESSMENT: ABCDEFGHI

Airway

Breathing

Circulation

Disability

Examine

Fahrenheit

Get Vitals

Head To Toe Assessment

Intervention

So at my hospital I work at the orthopedics unit only had three patients so the whole unit I ly had a nurse and CNA working it. The two of them are all on their own. They were in a patients room doing some wound care on a patient’s back. The CNA helped the patient sit up in the bed while the nurse did the wound care.

WELL, the CNA that morning donated blood and didn’t follow the post donation rules like (drink plenty of water, eat a high protein meal, stay away from caffeine and alcohol) and she passed out right in front of the patient. So the patient and the nurse are like:

The nurse didn’t know what tf was wrong with her and she was all alone on this unit with a heavy patient who is out of bed SO she decides to hit the CODE BLUE button. Yeah. She called a code for her CNA. The trauma doctor, hospital ist, respitory therapist, icu nurses, trauma nurses, and clinical supervisor all rush into the room just to find out that there is no code. Just the CNA passed for some reason. I asked the CNA about it and she said all she remembers is waking up to the crash cart being opened up in front of her with a million people in the room.