I& #39;m going to try and post this on the way it deserves.
Not to proud to say I bawled my eyes out, Please follow this thread...
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•Time• the sedative was given
•Time• the paralytic was given
•Time• the patient was intubated
•Time• their central line was placed
•Time• their arterial line was placed
•Time• their Vas Cath was placed
•Time• CRRT initiated
•Time• the patient was proned
•Time• the ABG was drawn
•Time• the family was notified
•Time• the zoom meeting was set for
I’ve stood outside a patient room with clasped hands, giving a thumbs up to a patient through a window as they were being extubated. Moments before:

ā€œStay calm. The respiratory therapist is going to take this breathing tube out, okay?
ā€œStay calm. The respiratory therapist is going to take this breathing tube out, okay? I need you to nod your head so I know you understand me. I know, don’t try to talk. You’re doing great.ā€

I& #39;ve taught patients to call when they were ready to be intubated.
ā€œI can’t breathe.ā€

ā€œOkay, let me call the doctor and get everything ready.ā€

ā€œTell my kids I love them.ā€

ā€œTell them yourself we are calling them before this happens.ā€

ā€œPlease make sure I come off the ventilator.ā€

ā€œListen to me, you fight like heck, okay?ā€
ā€œHow am I supposed to fight when I’ll be asleep?ā€

ā€œYou just have to go into this knowing you want to fight. You will never be alone. We will fight this with you.ā€

To: Nurses, Doctors, Nurse Practitioners, Respiratory Therapists, Pharmacists, CNAs, PCTs
, Phlebotomists, Rad and CT techs, and anyone else I missed,

How many times do we go home holding on to any bit of hope that what we are doing is making a difference for these patients?
We’ll spend 14 hours with hypoxia and hypotension, go home, and come back only to find out the patient didn’t make it.

All those times we felt like we weren’t doing anything for these patients - Your chance is here.
If you have even the SLIGHTEST bit of opportunity to prevent getting this virus and giving it to others - Take it.

Do it for the patients you lost. For some, you were the last person they talked to. The last hand they held.
•Time• 1118
That’s the •time• I received the Covid-19 vaccine today.

Jenifer, RN
Stormont Vail Health

#wetogether
#mytime to make a difference
#mytime is for my patients
•Time• the family said their goodbyes
•Time• of death

That was someone’s mother, father, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, friend, spouse.

That was their •time• to go. And I feel confident in saying the virus made it too soon.
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