To Save a Life
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ENG 101-05
3/14/2011
To Save a Life
Working in a busy Emergency Room, one must wonder, “Do I have what it takes?” This means many long countless hours of hard labor. Never having a moment to sit down, or even eat your lunch. It takes great dedication to hold a job as honorable as this one. It takes a compassionate person to care for each and every patient. In the early days of medical technology, it was often hard to save lives. Technology has come a long way since the early days. Even though technology has evolved, it is still hard extremely on all the staff involved. There are special, dedicated people all through the world that are saving lives every day.
I walk through the halls of the busy Emergency Room, taking notes of all the work left to me from the other wonderful co-workers who did not finish their work on the previous shift and taking in the fact that every room but one is filled, the trauma room. The intercom alerts immediately, “Code Blue Alert Emergency Room”, “Code Blue Alert Emergency Room”. If you have the heart and compassion to save a life then follow me behind the curtains of, “The Trauma Room”.
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The chaos begins as the staff rushes to the trauma room to set up for the incoming code. “What’s our eta?” one nurse asks. “Ten minutes”, another one replies. A body bag is placed under the sheet of the stretcher, just in case the patient does not make it. IV set ups, IV needles and blood tubes are pulled out and placed on the counter. A nurse grabs the EKG machine and plugs it in. Bags of fluids are prepped and hanging. A Foley catheter is pulled from the cart and placed on the counter. The monitors and many other various machines are set up and checked to make sure they are on and operating properly. “What are we getting?” the tech asks. The first nurse replies, “A Cardiac Arrest”. As the sirens blare from a short distance the intercom blurts, “Code Blue Emergency Room”, “Code Blue Emergency Room”.
Now one...
3/14/2011
To Save a Life
Working in a busy Emergency Room, one must wonder, “Do I have what it takes?” This means many long countless hours of hard labor. Never having a moment to sit down, or even eat your lunch. It takes great dedication to hold a job as honorable as this one. It takes a compassionate person to care for each and every patient. In the early days of medical technology, it was often hard to save lives. Technology has come a long way since the early days. Even though technology has evolved, it is still hard extremely on all the staff involved. There are special, dedicated people all through the world that are saving lives every day.
I walk through the halls of the busy Emergency Room, taking notes of all the work left to me from the other wonderful co-workers who did not finish their work on the previous shift and taking in the fact that every room but one is filled, the trauma room. The intercom alerts immediately, “Code Blue Alert Emergency Room”, “Code Blue Alert Emergency Room”. If you have the heart and compassion to save a life then follow me behind the curtains of, “The Trauma Room”.
Fogle 2
The chaos begins as the staff rushes to the trauma room to set up for the incoming code. “What’s our eta?” one nurse asks. “Ten minutes”, another one replies. A body bag is placed under the sheet of the stretcher, just in case the patient does not make it. IV set ups, IV needles and blood tubes are pulled out and placed on the counter. A nurse grabs the EKG machine and plugs it in. Bags of fluids are prepped and hanging. A Foley catheter is pulled from the cart and placed on the counter. The monitors and many other various machines are set up and checked to make sure they are on and operating properly. “What are we getting?” the tech asks. The first nurse replies, “A Cardiac Arrest”. As the sirens blare from a short distance the intercom blurts, “Code Blue Emergency Room”, “Code Blue Emergency Room”.
Now one...