Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Where Did I Put My Student?

I have a new student following me. She asked me if the chemo I was about to give was "sealed" or "unsealed". Those terms apply to radiation, folks. She hid--a lot. Probably because my almost paralyzed patient (spinal lesions) was having a nervous breakdown while my hematology patient tried to bleed out through a mere needle stick (the bed was saturated in blood, but we saved him!) while my hospice patient cried out in frightening dementia (likely leading to the nervous breakdown of the aforementioned patient) and the young lady getting chemo mentioned in some earlier posts threw a fit because she didn't have a nurse to chat with because all of us were saving the crashing bleeder. So my student hid, and I didn't have time to dig her out and show her how to handle such crises and try to maintain professionalism at the same time because I was handling the crises and marginally pulling off calm, cool, and collected. She was a sweet girl. I hope she comes back next week!

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