What one thing, event, or person has been rewarding in your career as a nurse/student?
With all the negative talk in nursing today, I know there is one good thing you have to share.
For me, it is the resident who says thanks for everything. She always compliments me on my clean pressed uniform, or gives me a smile each time I see her.
Simple, yes, but for me, rewarding!
Although she knows this is the job I am hired to do as a licensed person, she makes me feel needed and wanted. For this, it is not my job, but my joy!
Thankyou one and all for posting rewarding moments. It helps to read these.
I had an elderly vent patient, with a wife who was very demanding and critical of the nurses. More than once I thought he would code. and often his BP would go perilously high. We'd give Trandate IV and it would go even higher this would contine trandate - BP goes higher over and over until finally it comes down to a reasonable level. He finally left us to go to rehab. No one expected him to make it out of rehab. One day we receive the most beautiful letter from his difficult to please wife thanking us for saving his life suddenly we were God's own angles. No one could believe this was the same woman. Then one day HE waltzed in. I did not recognize him. He did not remember any of us but knew what we had done for him. He was walking talking and on his way to Washington DC (this is NV) It was the most incredible thing I had ever seen. We had indeed more than once saved him. When he left he was still in bad shape and walking was the last thing anyone would even dare to hope for him. Now he causally twirrled a cane that he truly did not need and he said he just used for sympathy from stranges.
That was when I first realized that we can never give up on anyone. He was truly my first miracle patient. It also made me realize that even people who are critical and hard to please may not necessairly miss the good we do.
Agnus
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Thankyou one and all for posting rewarding moments. It helps to read these.
I had an elderly vent patient, with a wife who was very demanding and critical of the nurses. More than once I thought he would code. and often his BP would go perilously high. We'd give Trandate IV and it would go even higher this would contine trandate - BP goes higher over and over until finally it comes down to a reasonable level. He finally left us to go to rehab. No one expected him to make it out of rehab. One day we receive the most beautiful letter from his difficult to please wife thanking us for saving his life suddenly we were God's own angles. No one could believe this was the same woman. Then one day HE waltzed in. I did not recognize him. He did not remember any of us but knew what we had done for him. He was walking talking and on his way to Washington DC (this is NV) It was the most incredible thing I had ever seen. We had indeed more than once saved him. When he left he was still in bad shape and walking was the last thing anyone would even dare to hope for him. Now he causally twirrled a cane that he truly did not need and he said he just used for sympathy from stranges.
That was when I first realized that we can never give up on anyone. He was truly my first miracle patient. It also made me realize that even people who are critical and hard to please may not necessairly miss the good we do.