Firefighter Intern: Day 42
Nov. 15th, 2018 01:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grim23“Man Is Nothing But That Which He Makes Of Himself.” - Jean-Paul Sartre
As part of my EMT curriculum, I spent an 8-hour clinical rotation at the Providence St. Vincent's Medical Center Emergency Department. I walked in and started helping the ED techs, observing at first and then helping with patient transfer and with simple tasks. I observed a person with a complicated stroke from the time they came into to the ED from the ambulance with the paramedics giving report, to the initial treatment to stop the stroke symptoms, to the different CT scans and imaging procedures, to the medication and the assessment of the severity of the stroke, to the admission to the hospital - about two hours. I observed seizures, sepsis, trauma, mental illness and suicidality, and really sick people who literally needed immediate care. I spent the last two hours in the peds unit, working with two very ill children and helping with injections, catheterizations, and assessments, one with a Hispanic family and an interpreter.
I got my signature of rotation completion from the Charge Nurse on my way out at 11:15 pm, as well as a very deep appreciation for the medical/trauma side of an active and professional Emergency Department.
As part of my EMT curriculum, I spent an 8-hour clinical rotation at the Providence St. Vincent's Medical Center Emergency Department. I walked in and started helping the ED techs, observing at first and then helping with patient transfer and with simple tasks. I observed a person with a complicated stroke from the time they came into to the ED from the ambulance with the paramedics giving report, to the initial treatment to stop the stroke symptoms, to the different CT scans and imaging procedures, to the medication and the assessment of the severity of the stroke, to the admission to the hospital - about two hours. I observed seizures, sepsis, trauma, mental illness and suicidality, and really sick people who literally needed immediate care. I spent the last two hours in the peds unit, working with two very ill children and helping with injections, catheterizations, and assessments, one with a Hispanic family and an interpreter.
I got my signature of rotation completion from the Charge Nurse on my way out at 11:15 pm, as well as a very deep appreciation for the medical/trauma side of an active and professional Emergency Department.
