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  1. Anatomy of a Code

    You're standing at your computer, charting on your patients. The end of the shift is nearing, and you really want to get this done so that you can get home. As you are typing, you hear a loud snoring noise coming from your patient's room. Suddenly al...
  2. Bridgid Joseph

    Code Blue: What Should I Do?

    Code Blue (cardiac/respiratory arrest) events in-hospital can be really scary, especially if you work in the Medical-Surgical or procedural areas because they are so unexpected (most often, I should say.) I remember my first code quite clearly: a cow...
  3. nursemike

    A Change of Heart

    April 18, 2016, I began my third of three 12-hour night shifts, but I didn't finish it. Sometime after midnight, I felt a dull, but fairly strong pain under my sternum, which I first attributed to the Chinese food we had ordered, earlier. After anoth...
  4. AN is pleased to present a press release from AHA which adds another dimension to out of hospital cardiac arrest care - telephonic assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation via a 911 operator. The American Heart Association - the world's leading volunta...
  5. My First Code

    Towards the last few days of my comprehensive practicum, I experienced my first code blue. The very busy acute care unit I was working on had about 30 patients, with a 5 to 1 nurse, sometimes 6 to 1 patient ratio. We were running off our feet! In the...