First Time ever.

Yesterday night was the first of the 4 nights I'm working in the ward I'm assigned of. I myself requested the night shift as I accumulate all my public holidays during Merdeka Day and also Hari Raya. So, next week I'll be off the whole week =D, yup, something to be happy of but unfortunately, some unlucky things happened.

After finish passing report, my colleague and I were taking observations, closing up the I/O chart, answering the unstoppable call bells, and things were kinda calm. But when one of my staffs went and check out the antibiotic to see it's finish already or not, she came out and informed my Charge Nurse.

My colleague and I were sitting at the counter check the stuffs and I heard my Charge Nurse made a phone call and she said, "Page for Code Blue". I was like super shocked cause I thought I heard wrongly. Code Blue? Are you kidding me? My Charge Nurse was extremely calm and I quickly went and help her to push the emergency trolley into the room.

I can't say much things here. I'm not allowed to. But it was the first time ever I did CPR, which means cardiopulmonary resuscitation.I know that in movies CPR means mouth to mouth rescue breathing. It's not like that. In hospital we rarely do mouth to mouth as to protect us, medical workers. CPR is doing chest compression, by pressing the chest down by manually helping the patient's heart to pump.

Night shift doesn't have much staffs working. So we students are to stand by for the CPR. No carotid pulse, pupils fully dilated, these were the theories we learned but when it came to the real situation, you'll gained experience from it. 

All patients will be sent to ICU, Intensive Care Unit after each code blue. So I followed my staff together and Sister in-charge called me to be the helper in ICU as it's full house there. I stayed with the patient and help whatever I could while I'm observing the Intensive Care Nurse and also anesthetist doing her job. Putting CVL (central venous line), arterial line. At last, patient was kinda stabilized down. 

Amazingly, I faced the whole situation calmly even though at first when paging for code blue I was a bit shocked. Adrenaline rush haha. I realized something, when come to this kind of situation, staying calm is the most important thing. Because when you get nervous, you cant think of anything else. 

So in the end, I became the helper in ICU for 3 hours and helped in sponging a patient =)))

I'm glad I did lent a hand and it was a great experience to me. I'm so proud to be a nurse.