nursecam17

When a patient is in ICU "in a coma and on life support" and the patient is just on a nasal cannula..

"When I was your age I never would have spoken to an adult the way you're speaking to me" ... (This was screamed at me by a very irrational patient that I was calmly trying to talk down and diffuse the situation because she was extremely worked up about everything and nothing)

That was my question as well-what happens when there isn't a code...aka most of the shift! We also have a resource type nurse on for the hospital so it would make sense for them to carry the code pager since they don't have a patient assignment. But most of the time they're helping out by taking a patient to CT or MRI so again not something they could just run away from for a code.

Hi everyone! Looking to get input from people who have a dedicated code team at their facility.Where I work, the code team consists of residents/an attending, a pharmacist, the lead RT, and then a nurse from cardiac ICU and a nurse from medical ICU. In the ICUs, nurses that have been trained to take the code/rapid response pager rotate carrying it. So you show up for your shift and are told you have the code pager that day. But you also still have an ICU assignment, that in the event of a code, you have to run away from at a moment's notice while quickly finding someone to watch your patients. As a new ICU nurse, I'm terrified of having to carry the pager in the future, and still managing my patients. I've talked with some more senior employees who have also mentioned that a dedicated code team would be helpful and safer. So, if your hospital has such a thing, please enlighten me! Who is on the team? What do they do in between responding to codes? Any other feedback or tidbits of information would be great. Thanks so much!

St Paul is wonderful! Many good hospitals in the area and if you don't want to live in the heart of the city there are many places nearby or even smaller neighborhoods within St Paul that won't feel as big/crowded, but also you're not in "the suburbs". And it still gets plenty cold in St Paul í ½í¸Š