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the older nurse, what’s her name? She sure was sweating a lot today. What was up with that?
And please don’t let me be treated by Nathan and Melanie. Those two are never going to make it in that business unless they can toughen up. I’m not referring so much to their emotions after the event but they were both panicky during the cardiac arrest. Nathan knew she had myocarditis so he shouldn’t have been surprised to see her code. But I am surprised Nathan even had enough wits about him to know what to do. I will say, however, that at least they didn’t have the patient jump half way off the bed when he administered the de-fib. So many shows do that and it’s so fake.
Perhaps, her wig was too hot under the kleg lights…(I just think it was a wig)…Makeup!
As far as Salem Hospital and it’s other medical personnel/employees…they either cure a gunshot wound or something grivous in 20 seconds flat, or kill the patient that has a hangnail…Please – let’s all promise never to get sick when in Salem! I thought only the doctor could decide to call a death, I don’t think anyone else is medically qualifiled to make the decision and here Mel and Maxine were urging Nathan (the only doctor in the room – and isn’t he just a first year intern at that?) to call the patients death.
Lexi asked Nathan who was attending the patient that died. Hello? She was Nathan’s patient, who else would be attending her? How did Nathan know she had an "undiagnosed" underlying heart problem? That could only be determined by an autopsy.
And he requests going to the M&M (morbidity and mortality) hearing! Hah! If your patient dies, you are OBLIGATED to attend.
Going back a little, when a code is called, there are usually people all over the place, not just an intern and nursing student, everybody in the near vicinity comes running.
Bah, don’t get me started.
I worked part time at the local hospital (kitchen dept as a teen) and you got out of the way the minute you heard the code as people from all over come running with "crash carts" etc. Guess Days’ writers never spent time at a hospital during that time. Just like their portrayal of the fire dept and police. Average citizens may help BEFORE the departments arrive but they are immediately kicked out once the official rescuers arrive. Drama frequently seems to transform into ‘stupidity’ when it comes to writing or maybe they just don’t want to hire the ‘extras’ to do the real jobs? It isn’t just Days though, I watch Y&R and when they had the explosion, the main characters were going in and out of the building more than the ‘extras’ (fire/police impersonators as they were all hanging outside of the building in protective gear)- very annoying in my opinion.
When I worked at the hospital for 30 years in Respiratory Therapy we had a "code team" When a code was called those on the team had pagers that announced the code and the room. Those were the people that responded. The team was comprised of doctors, nurses from the ICU (3 total and they were required to take ACLS; Advanced Cardiac Life Support classes and could run the code if a doc wasn’t there), respiratory therapy (2 therapists), lab, x-ray, pastoral care and the nursing supervisor for on duty that covered the entire hospital. One ICU nurse would write out times, rhythms and meds given. The doc would yell the orders, another 1-2 ICU nurses would administer drugs and respiratory therapy usually did CPR with a nurse doing compressions once in a while to give the therapist relief. The nurses from the floor would get out of the way but the nurse assigned to that patient would be available to answer questions about medical condition, meds taken and what happened. The doc in charge of the code was an ER doc or house doc and if/when the attending showed up he was then in charge unless he wanted to remain in the background which most did. The room was full of people and each person had a specific job and did it well. Same for ER except the nurses from the ICU didn’t respond, only respiratory therapy, x-ray, lab and pastoral care. We may have had 2 docs in the room at that time and if one was an intern they called the shots under the supervision of the ER doc.
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