Chest Pain At the Final Hour
I'm sitting at the computer charting at 0630 this morning at the end of my 6th 12-hour shift in a row, and PLOP! comes a new chart: chest pain patient. Well, everyone else had disappeared, wrapping it up for shift change, so I called the PA (physician's assistant) to meet me in the room and shot over to the room to set up I.V., cardiac monitor, 02, lab draw and when the PA arrives and takes and brief history, we give him meds and within five minutes his BP drops down and the chest pain eases off. Emergency averted. Just another day in the life of a male ER nurse.