Week 2

Second week on the floor was just as crazy as the first, and I felt possibly even more inept!

Highlights:

1. Psychotic gal who super glued her eye lids open, guess how crazy she looked after we pumped her full o haldol and benadryl...

2. Preceptor: Have you ever seen V-tach in real life?

Me: Nope!

Preceptor: Points to cardiac monitor- run and go look at the patient!

So I did, another one of the Newbies was in there with a gaggle of people. A respiratory distress had an episode of v tach after he got intubated, wasn't doing great, wife and son were in the next room crying. I felt like an asshole standing there and watching...