Flu season is here, folks. The news is freakin' the *&% out of people about the flu, and the hospitals are preparing for at least 50% of the population to get the flu - so we, as nursing students, received an email from IHC asking for a list of volunteer nursing students that they could call in case of a major pandemic. I put my name on the list, because - hey! Great experience, right?
Then I started thinking about it. And I was all like - Oh, hell no. A nursing student trying to work half-way supervised if there's a nursing shortage? Me, imagining me, trying to take care of 6 swine flu patients all by myself ... 'cause I was all proud of myself for not killing the 3 patients I had at clinical when my nurse went to lunch and left me by myself for 30 minutes. Those were some awesome nursing skills I busted out in those 30 minutes, let me tell you. And then I was imagining it being like, "So, since you've been in school the longest, you will be the charge nurse tonight. Good luck." AND THEN I HAD TO INTUBATE SOMEONE IN RESPIRATORY DISTRESS. And my brain freaked OUT.
So I've decided - IHC, you can take my name OFF that list, 'cause I really don't want to lose my license before I even get it.
5 comments:
Get your mom and dad to let you practice on them. All us Deans don't do well with needles and tubes so it would be good practice on catching a man as he is falling to the ground after fainting ha ha.
Anyway, that is how it would be for me.
Good luck.
ahhhhh hahahaha so funny. I would take you as my nurse :)
Yeah working alone, unsupervised would about freak me out too. I love that you totally blew up the direness of what might happen in your mind. Classic! Or maybe it was just reality setting in? I don't know anything about what it is like to be a nurse!
They wouldn't leave a student nurse to work alone!! At least, I hope not! I was just blowing things way out of proportion - like usual.
Well, better the nurse you know than the one you don't know. I know you and you can take care of me when I get the flu. With 8 year olds coughing all over me every day I am bound to get something. I haven't missed any work, but I've felt yucky already. They say Tooele is in stage 1 of the 3 stages they expect the flu to go through this year. One down and two to go.
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