with all the craziness that i go through day in and day out at work. sometimes i forget why i really really like my job. yes i work with some pretty awesome people. but that isnt the main reason why i love nursing.
today
a patient who was nervous about their procedure was given extra sedation.
when this patient came to our unit to recover i remembered them from the previous day.
(you can understand why they were nervous, two surgeries. two days. i would be)
with that extra sedation, they were really really out of it. trying to get up and extremely emotional.
the nurse asked me to stay in the room to make sure the patient would be safe.
they remembered me from the day before and reached for my hand and asked me to not leave.
they kept asking me questions about the surgery, that if they were okay, if they were alive, if they were dead. then kept asking for their mom. the family came in and the patient asked me to not leave.
the patient kept going in and out of it. crying, smiling, sleeping.
and as they started to calm down, they told us that there father, grandma and others were here. but arent here anymore.
thats when it finally clicked.
these people that the patient was mentioning were people that have passed.
this just reaffirms my belief of when you are dealing with an extreme situation, in this case surgery. your loved ones that are no longer on earth are watching over you. then when your surgery is done your loved ones on earth are taking over and watching you.
(like when wilson my little brother was born. we knew lauren, my little sister was watching over wilson for the first few weeks. ill have to share this story another time with you)
for about 30 minutes this patient asked me not to leave. i kept telling them to relax. you are here. you are alive. and you are all done.
then the patient just snapped out of it. like nothing had happened.
they looked at me asked me what happened. i told her.
later i took the patient up to there room and told me that i am soothing, comforting person and that i was meant to be there when she came out of surgery and thanked me for being there.
its patients like this, where i feel like i am making a difference in there stay at the hospital what makes my love my job.
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