Bummed Bag checking.. DONE
Logging In... DONE
then we took off to the "Agency."
After an hour of "blah blahs" and "nah nahs" the group separated into their respective area assignments.
anxious as we are, we marched on the the locker rooms, got dressed into our white scrubsuits,
and went to ICU..
The area was filled with deafening silence.. like when you enter a room with sound proof walls.
Everything was so quite, like any sudden obnoxious noise you'll make could cause a patient's death or something.
There we were oriented into some basic routines within the area; the machineries, the meds, and all..
During orientation, i couldn't help myself but to feel anxious. Looking around the ward, it was full of patient with
different types of tubes lodged into them.. ET Tubes, Suction Tubes, IJ, 4-5 IVF's with infusion pumps, cardiac monitoring, Bp Cuff, Catheters, Mechanical Ventilators, O2 et.al.. its like seeing an electric post with different wires, only this time - a real live person.
Seeing the scenario was too MUCH for my bare benign eyes (for the past 2 weeks, my duties have been so benign!).
Then the worst came, a patient in cubicle #3 "Arrested", so everyone in the area grumbled their assess towards the cubicle to revive the patient. Twas weird tough, cause they had to revive the patient SILENTLY, unlike in MAMC or MCMC wherein everyone shouts for some assistance.
While the CI was explaining stuff, i wasn't even listening... i was focusing on the CPR Drama inside the cubicle.. 30 minutes passed, the doctor stopped the maneuver.. then everything was back to normal again.. leaving the dead patient inside the cubicle..
Orientation day was TOXIC enough... how about tommorow's first ever duty?
Well, that's for me to find out.. imma see how those Tubes efficiently work to save lives...
Last week at MMMC-ER we had a DOA and had to do CPR. Before that, we had a VA. The team I was with was good. When that VA came in moaning and growing and the rest of the ER staff going into action, i didn't want to sit back but be in the game! So i rushed in also. Felt good. anyways, you overwhelmed with the death or the tubes and well, ICU in itself?
ReplyDeletelike most of the technical stuff involved inside. but today's duty was legit though, twas full of "celebrity" action.. one of the cubicles was occupied by a governor so the area was guarded like a bank, we had to have 2nd inspections after the primary one at the gate. sad though cause 3 of the patients we had during the orientation day all EXPIRED in one night, leaving us with 4 patients out of the supposed 9. Life.. the irony.. o_o
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