I Am a Nurse
I am a trauma nurse. I’ve been working at a level one pediatric trauma center for about two years now, my job is what a lot of us like to call “organized chaos.”
You never know what’s coming, every day as I walk through the entry doors of the center, I have to prepare myself for the worst of the worst. When you are treating patients that come into our center in critical condition, you really don’t have time to emotionally process what’s occurring, you have to act immediately and with precision, because their lives in the moment lay upon your hands.
I will never forget the first time I had to perform CPR on a child, it’s a case that will forever be engraved in my memory. I will never forget the first time we couldn’t save one of our patients.
I won’t lie to you, my job is unbelievably hard, especially because it involves children’s lives. It is emotionally and mentally draining at times, but it’s rewarding in itself.
Despite how difficult it can be, I could not picture myself doing anything else.
You never know what’s coming, every day as I walk through the entry doors of the center, I have to prepare myself for the worst of the worst. When you are treating patients that come into our center in critical condition, you really don’t have time to emotionally process what’s occurring, you have to act immediately and with precision, because their lives in the moment lay upon your hands.
I will never forget the first time I had to perform CPR on a child, it’s a case that will forever be engraved in my memory. I will never forget the first time we couldn’t save one of our patients.
I won’t lie to you, my job is unbelievably hard, especially because it involves children’s lives. It is emotionally and mentally draining at times, but it’s rewarding in itself.
Despite how difficult it can be, I could not picture myself doing anything else.
