Emergency Life Saving
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Doctors, nurses and emergency medical technicians! Tell me your best story about how you saved a life -briefly
I will put this question to a vote.
Note: I did register for the Bone Marrow Registry as a donor years ago and updated it recently. No one has ever called me, but I'm willing to do it if it is needed.
It is true what the last person said, it is hard to put a story about saving someone's life into writing, but I can tell you about an experience that I had while still in nursing school.
I had a patient that was admitted to the hospital after falling and breaking her hip. She was scheduled for surgery to have her hip repaired the following day. She was pleasant although a little confused as to how she had broken her hip and what she was doing in the hospital.
The following day, I had this patient again and entered the room to help her get ready for the surgery. I noticed that her speech was very slurred and she was highly confused and agitated. I also notice that her right arm was bent very close to her chest and she could not move it, even when I tried to help her move it to change her gown.
I approached my supervising nurse immediately and told her that I think this patient has had a stroke. We looked back into the notes and saw that there was no documentation supporting my claim. Although there was mention in the nursing notes that she was confused and agitated all evening and into the night and she was "favoring" her right arm. They had sedated her in the evening.
I finally convienced my supervising nurse to consult a doctor about the situation, so she doubtfully called the surgeon scheduled for the surgery as well as the doctor on call, and pointed out that a nursing student is insisting that a patient had a stroke and although she was doubtful, could they come and take a look.
The patient went through several tests, and it was confirmed that she had in fact had several small strokes that no one else had picked up on, and there was no way they could preform the surgery until they had her stable.
As you can imagine, I was a lowly nursing student that picked up on symptoms that no one else had, and this patient could have died in the OR, if the strokes had gone unnoticed. I gained a lot of respect that day. This is why this story sticks out in my mind, it helped me build confidence in my knowledge and skills as a nurse.