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One night while working the evening shift, we received a phone call
about mid shift. It was nursing service advising us of a bomb threat.
All personel working have to search their work areas thoroughly. You
have to go through all lockers, patient rooms and belongings. All
restrooms, closets, you leave nothing unchecked. This takes awhile to do
all of this and you have to keep quiet about it as far as visitors and
patients are concerned. It is so hard to go through a patients
belongings and unable to tell them why you are doing this. The floor I was on that evening was next to the administration wing. I had to search what rooms were not locked. After an hour of searching, the phone rang with an all clear and that is was just a hoax. That is when my knees started shaking when I realized what would have happened if it were a real threat and what if I found it. We had a series of these threats for about a month and then they just stopped. The caller never stayed on line long enough to get a trace. That night scared me more than doing a code blue or finding a patient who died in his sleep just after you make rounds thirty minutes ago or to have a patient suddenly go bad when he or she was improving. I found out one thing that night. I know what it is like to have one's heart in one's throat and pound so hard you think that it will jump out of your chest any minute. God and all of His angels were watching out for us that night. |
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