Code Blue!

[vegnurse21]

This is going to sound really silly as I've had CPR classes twice now! But I honest to goodness would freak out if one of my patients coded one day. I'm a PCA and I *know* it is bound to happen sometime and possibly during clinicals as well. I just wouldn't really know what to do first I guess.

For instance, what if your patient fell in the bathroom and they code...what do you do first? Get on top of them and start doing chest compressions? Or do you run out in the hallway, grab the resuscitation mask and then go? Do you do it without a resuscitation mask if no one comes? (I know that one's a little desperate as everyone's gonna come running during a code) Do I get off once more experienced personnel come along? I feel like I'd freak out and just be in someone's way, but I REALLY want to know what to do should the emergency arise.

[PunkBenRN]

I was thinking the same exact thing