Friday, October 15, 2010

Emergency Services Week

Every year we celebrate Emergency Services Week instead of Emergency Nurses Week. Vicky took this year 'over the top'. Vicky had arranged for something every single day for 7 days for both AM and PM shifts. Food was brought in every day and Vicky's enthusiam really rolled over onto the staff.


We really didn't plan the 'black out' but we ended up wearing black and we were testing out the camera in their office! Not too bad for placing it on the shelf!

Vicky put together a Music quiz where everyone submitted their 'favorite' artist. Then everyone had to guess who was who's. Some people were cheating: Nathan...Lori.....Courtney! Anyways...everyone KNOWS who my favorite artist is! Who else would I spend $$ on and travel to 6 different venues to see?

Once the week was done and Vicky matched up the artist to the staff, it was fun to see who liked who. Ann-Marie Monday and Vanilla Ice? Really? or PJ and the Spice Girls?
We did have Red from Red Robin come in for lunch one day! That was pretty fun! Im not quite so sure Red was ready for a trip to the ER.

Red wasn't feeling well. We placed him in Room 3 for rest.....yeah...rest! We did think that maybe putting 360 joules through him would 'light him up a bit', but he seemed to come around after we suggested that.

Jessica was so emotional in trying to resusitate Red. It was exhausting....
Nathan was totally into the mouth-to-beak breathing that was required as Respiratory didn't have a mask big enough...Nathan on the other hand, didn't have a problem!
After a few rounds of high-quality CPR and some excellent breaths, Red was back to life!

Im not quite sure Red will be back.....The staff had a fun week and it takes away from the chaos that ensues daily. We do try to get fun in when we can...just as long as the patients/visitors don't see it!

Yep, we had to get some picture that Vicky didn't know about before she actually uploaded stuff.....oh well.... Back to work...another day in the ER! I do love the staff!

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