When you save a life

[Wheels28]

When you save someone's life do you still get a rush or a high after doing it for so many years, or does it become "just another day at the office"? I know many times you are so busy that you don't have time to process it because you need to be ready for the next one, but on your drive home do you ever reflect on things like that? I know many of you say that you sometimes vent to your husband's when you get home, but do you share when you save some lives? I know if my wife came home and over dinner she told me a story about how she saved someone's life, I would think to myself "I have one awesome wife."

This may be an odd question but I'm curious.

[SoldierNurse22, BSN, RN]

I have also never been in a code, but I've caught oncology patients going septic in time to alert the docs, start treatment, and--at times--transfer to the ICU. And yes, there is absolutely a rush.