Salute to Nurses everwyehere

[edchunt, BSN, RN]

Hi everybody, Just thought I would add some credit where credit is due. I have been on both sides , of course, being a patient and being a nurse. I want to thank all you nurses who quitely work so hard and get very little reward for what you do. I know who is always there when the pt. is in needand who does most of the care....nurses. Doctors come and go and I know they are busy too, but there is always a nurse there on duty. Nurses recognize the first sign of change and quickly do someting about it (intervene), many a nurse has saved lives and I think iy is heroic and noble.I love nursing for that,and love being a part of it. I think nurses should be paid more and recognized more for what they do. They are some of the smartest people in the world, and are needed badly, they work long hours and keep coming back. I think more respect is due them for what they do to help people and make a difference in people's lives. So to nurses everywhere , THANK YOU and I salute you for your noble positions.:biggringi

[Antikigirl, ASN, RN]

You are welcome and thank YOU! Always so wonderful to get a kudos!!! *Big Hug* to you!

[Dancehall Doctor]

read this and thought id shareand say ==Thanks to You ALL!

I Had a baby die on me tonight :-(

I am an ER nurse and had a little one die this morning. It has made me so upset I feel sick. Parents hug your kids this morning tell them you love them and know you may not ever get another chance to say it again. It only takes a second for them to go away forever. Please don't let this moment pass you by

By sexydevil on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 5:55 am:

vbrendon..I'm so sorry to hear about the baby :-(

HUGS!!! to you.

By vavouyer on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 5:57 am:

That is terrible... life is a mystery....for some reason, some never get a chance at it. It's so hard to see young children pass... I plan on doing just that today...my daughter of 19 just called us out of the blue this week from school and said can we meet 1/2 way for lunch..I just miss you guys. Hang in there VB and keep doing what you do :-)

By studsm on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 5:59 am:

Sorry you had to go thru that, One reason why I could never do your job. I would never be able to take the bad with the good.

Try to remember all the ones that left your workplace that you could save.

By vbrendon on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 6:00 am:

Yea, I just kept thinking as I was pressing on his little chest, I would trade my life for his in a second and I don't even know him. Babies should not die. All of us adults have done things to deserve it but when you look into their little eyes empty of life it just eats your soul. It is not fair it is just not fair.

By mistygirl on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 6:03 am:

vbrendon .. I'm so sorry .. that has to be so hard ..

And you are right ... the year before my son started school.. we had a tornado go thru a local elementary school killing some kindergarteners .. I'll never forget .. the reports in the paper .. of people saying they did or didn't say I love you to the kids that morning .. because of this .. I always make sure no matter how angry either of us are (the kids at me or me at them) .. we say I love you ..

My thoughts go out to you on having to deal with this .. nothing sadder than a child dying.

By shian4u on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 6:09 am:

Geez that is a awful thing for you to go through vbrendon,

words are not enough for something like that.

As a mum my heart goes out to you and that poor couple.xx.

By dhub on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 6:10 am:

my hats off to you, vbrendon, and all those people who can do that sort of work

it needs done, and god knows i'm too big a wimp to handle it

and, yeah, i never miss a chance to tell the girls (even the big one, Pillow) that i love them...mostly 'cause of the type of work i do, never enters my mind that it might be one of THEM that doesn't come home

yes, i know it's a possibility, but, i can't face it, soooo....

By msddd on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 6:10 am:

So sorry to hear that, Thank you for all you do, you have a tough job. Nurses are so special!

By vbrendon on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 6:14 am:

I see this crap all the time but I feel like I am breaking!! I am a sex addict and my wife is an alcoholic and This stress is beginning to overwelm me. I bet I have in hand 10 thousand dollars in drugs every night and am beginning to understand how nurses become drug addicts

By actor05 on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 6:29 am:

vbrendon hang in their. I learned this in school 40 years ago. BLESSED ARE THE CARE GIVERS, THEY SHALL SEA THE KINGDOM OF GOD. you have a nobel profession. think of all the good you do for people. good luck. actor05

By prairie on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 7:37 am:

Truly tragic. You should seek counseling or switch to another area of nursing before you explode.

By genndi2487 on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 7:46 am:

this is so true even for adults, I remember when I woke up 5 days later after the heart attack, the first thing I thought of was that if I had died that night, I would not have been able to tell my children that I loved them and how much I loved them

By de_adv on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 8:50 am:

dude, I'm not saying that you have to become totally desensitized to down side but I think you need to think about the good you do. If you have been doing this for any length of time I'm sure there are people that without your help and being there would not be here today. And you're a guy....most of us are addicted to sex.

By sandra912 on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 9:34 am:

May God bless both you and the little one.

By miguy on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 10:13 am:

vbrendon,There are a few on here that go through the same thing. I could never have a job like that.

I can't stand to see or hear about kids or women that are hurt or suffering.

Like the other person said,You people are special people and we could never get along without you.We need all of you.---Thanks

By hairbear on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 11:45 am:

As a cop I can tell you nothing kicks you in the balls as hard as a dead baby or small child. Nothing like a SIDS case or a traffic fatality involving an infant or small child to make you appreciate your children or life in general. I wish I had some words or encouragement but the next one never gets any easier than the last one. Just like making death notifications......it sucks. I think all the above are the worst part of being a cop.

By dadawg on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 12:15 pm:

Vbrendon, how lucky we are to have you here and there ... to be blessed by your giving makes the rest of us realize how little we give. If you feel a weight beside you it is us leaning on you ... thank you for your strength.

Hairbear been arrested by your kind many times and to this day I thank each officer for being there "to protect and serve". Another profession that isn't thanked enough for their sacrifices. Because of you and others like you I can turn the lights and feel safe.

By firestar on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 1:00 pm:

Vbrendon, I feel for you. As an emergency dispatcher who had to EMD hundreds of calls, I know what you're going through. I had many patients that never made it to the ER alive. We try our best, the rest is in the hands of God.

(((hugs))). Keep up the good work you do. Thousands of us rely on you in our time of need.

(kathy)

By jdms1 on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 1:10 pm:

VB .......... And the ones you have saved ????? ( ex Ambulance paramedic ) we do the job to the very best of our ability .... AND MORE .... sad fact is we are mortal as are all the patients we come in to contact with.

The lives you have saved ... the family you have made joyous the faces you have seen crying with joy ..... we can't save them all ..... god has plans for the ones he chooses.

By fixxxed on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 1:27 pm:

Heaven needed another cherub...

By sawatdee on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 2:53 pm:

VB, I know what feelings you are going through. At different times in our lives we had to bury three of our own children. Its a very painful experience.

As a er nurse I'm sure you see a lot of tragedy. You also see a lot of miracles. I was seriously injured in a accident over twenty years ago.I spent the next three years in and out of hospitols. The only reason why I am alive today is because of a nurse. If it wasnt for her I would have bled to death. Now my daughter is going to school again to become a RN. I look back and wonder if part of the reason is because she saw all that I went thru and all the help I recieved fron some truly great nurses. Hang in there, you are truly in a noble profession.

By missmar on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 3:15 pm:

VB...my heart goes out to you. It is the smallest, most vulnerable patients that break your heart when you work in a hospital. I was a respiratory therapest and it was very hard dealing with the babies and children. Had one beautiful little girl with blonde hair, blue eyes and porcelain skin. She was choked by christmas lights run over her crib and out the window. Not a mark on her beautiful little body. But when the docs did the cold calorics and the doll's eye test, there was no hope. Broke my heart. It just doesn't seem fair or right.

VB...if I were you, I would go to your director of nursing and tell her that you are not doing well with your job assignment and ask her for help dealing with the stress you are suffering. They should have programs in place or outside programs available to you. You should ask to be assigned to a less stressful nursing position within the hospital or ask for medical time off to deal with what you are going through. I think the best nurses out there are the ones who recognize that they are having problems dealing with the job stress and who get help. You are human. Don't let the job break you.

By ukwoody on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 3:36 pm:

Given the choice, me or my kids, ME, everytime.

I feel for you.

By sharemyhotwife on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 4:35 pm:

This post touched my heart.

vbrendon, so sorry for the baby.

By cajunbbw on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 6:00 pm:

vbrendon, I've lost 2 clients within the past month and it never gets any easier (I'm an HIV/AIDS counselor, and yes, some of my clients are children). But nurses like you and anybody else that works in the healthcare field with so much hands-on contact with patients are special people. You're one of the good people, you know. You have compassion and there's not enough of that in our world.

By voyeurbill on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 8:20 pm:

Hey V, you gotta say to yourself **** it. One minute they're there, the next they're gone. Ya go home, hug your famly members, ya forget about the little things that you thought were the important to you like, your car (you would trade that piece of **** on a new one in a second), your television ( buy a new one), your current favorite resturant (you'd change that for a two for one special at another resturant down the street), ect, ect, but you wouldn't change your family members for anything. Your kids, your wife have no trade-in value. A little off subject, sorry.

By chiefdoc2 on Saturday, January 28, 2006 - 8:30 pm:

Spent my last 7 years, of 22 total (as an OR tech, instrument nurse)at a regional children's hospital in Seattle. Got some great strokes often when something the team did made a better life for a kid HOWEVER, got just burned out seeing them die, often of STUPID things parents did like not straping them into a car seat, etc.

So, it was a mixed bag; the late nights and weekends and holidays spent scrubbed in or 'on call.' Glad I did it, GLAD I'M OUT OF IT!

...Jerry

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

So to nurses everywhere , THANK YOU and I salute you for your noble positions.

And since you happen to be a nurse, I definitely think you are to be praised for doing such a thankless job.