One of my happiest most proud moment as a student nurse happened in my first year when I was monitoring a patient in the cardiac unit. I really didn't know what to look for on the monitor, but all of a sudden it started to go a bit crazy and I ran to the nursing station only to be met by a whole bunch of med students, doctors and profs on their teaching round. I called out to them that something was going crazy on the monitor. All I remember where a flurry of white coats flying down the hallway and when they arrived at the bedside the big guns said "Nurse! You are fabulous! He is in heart block, you've saved his life!!" I laugh every time I remember. They all shook my hands and congratulated me, and I didn't have a clue what was going on! HA HA!
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