All throughout nursing school I never had the chance to observe, perform or be actively involved in an emergency. Well the opportunity came on Sunday night at 930 pm. I was in another patients room giving medication and then I hear 'CODE BLUE, I NEED HELP IN HERE!' The alarm was pulled, I stopped what I was doing and ran to the room, grabbed the clipboard and started documenting. I had never done anything of the like before and I didnt know what I was doing really but I tried and everyone knew I was new. I had never seen so many people try so hard to save a patient. After 25 minutes of live saving measures we were not able to save the patient. This was also the first "death" experience I had. This patient was so blue it was unbelievable, there were several of my new coworkers there and they were the ones relieving/performing the compressions on the patient. I dont know that any of us had been in this type of situation before but they looked calm, cool and knew what they were doing. The entire staff that was working so hard had a look of sadness and dismay when the MD said no more. It is possible that the client had a pulmonary embolism which was not something that we could have saved, or caused. The nurse was sullen for the remainder of the shift. The hard part was that we all have to go back to what we needed to do and complete. There was a different feel amongst the nurses that night, as well as the unit.
The hardest part about this CODE was that after the patient had expired- yes thats the term we use...I admitted a new patient to the same room later on that night! Freaky!
Scary, but I now feel more prepared for any emergency that may arise.
This is the not so pleasant side of nursing but it actually occurs. Ironically its the one thing that I think TV gets pretty close to accurate. There is only one way to go about saving a person's life. Full out emotion, physical energy and force, as well as complete exhaustion at the end positive or negative.
That's all...
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