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Well today I had to work in the emergency room. Scared out of my wits to
work there. I can work in ICU without any problem but ER that's another
thing. Everything is happening so fast. At times it is as frantic as the
tv series ER and slow as a snail's pace at other times.
I was given a fast and brief tour of where things were kept in each room
and little else. First patient was a young woman who left a can of Pam on the stove while she was cooking. Burns to her face and arms, hands, and upper chest and neck. Helped the doctor to cleanse her burns and put sterile moist saline soaked bandages and burn cream over what burns could be wrapped. Then she went to ICU to stay until she could be airlifted to a burn center in Tulsa. Next patient was an elderly man in his 80's. Chief complaint "No BM in two weeks" Well this turned out to be Enema City for an hour or so. The aroma would turn you against eating for a week or more. Third patient, car wreck. Fractured everything it seemed. Rushed to surgery to set a broken leg , bandage ribs , and put in traction to immobilize a fracture pelvis. Fourth patient, baseball injury. Young teen hit in the head with a baseball. Hair line fracture, admitted for observation for 24 hours. Next patient heart attack, code blue in progress, revived, sent to ICU. Time for lunch and a brief reprieve. Afternoon....sick child with fever and chills, crying. Dx with pneumonia, admit to peds for care. Rest of the day was fair with another pneumonia, flu, another car wreck....this one with less injuries. As I was going off duty, the dispatcher of the ambulance co. was sending in a gun shot wound and another wreck. First and only time to work there was enough for me. Have to admire those ER nurses. They have their work cut out for them. Give me intensive care any day. |
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