santa's little helpers...

i couldn't resist posting this...you HAVE to watch it. it features aaron and i, and our dear friends daniel and jenny who live in boston. we miss you guys!

just click on the link below...

elf yourself... (please be patient while the page loads, it will be worth the wait)

just a little update for you all...

i only have one more day left in my practicum at evergreen, then i graduate on sunday, the 9th. i had an interview at holy family hospital in spokane in the emergency department last week. that went really well and they said that i was a good candidate for the job. i also have an interview at evergreen in the ED on December 13th. they had more than 50 applicants for three positions, so i don't know what my chances are of getting offered a position...but i'm staying positive, and i know that God will provide the perfect nursing position for me either in spokane, or seattle area...or who knows where else. 

last week in the ED during my practicum, we were called to a "code blue" up in ICU. a code blue means that someone has stopped breathing and CPR is required. an emergency room doctor, nurse, and tech go to all the code blue's in the hospital, and my nurse who i am shadowing was on the code team that day. we go running through the halls and up the stairs to the room where the code was. there were about 15 people in the room...from doctors, to pharmacists, to respiratory therapy, to nurses, to techs, and the family of the patient. one nurse had just started to do CPR, but was tiring quickly. my nurse told me to jump in there and take over for her. the first couple of compressions i felt his bones cracking below my hands, which is expected because you are supposed to do compressions really deep and hard...but it was a gross feeling. after about 2 minutes doing CPR, the doctor told me to stop compressions because we needed to shock him. after about three cycles of CPR and shocking him, we got a pulse again. when i left the room, his oxygen level looked ok, and he was somewhat stable. that was my first experience doing CPR on a real person. there were so many emotions during and after...it was exhilirating, intense, scary, and a huge adrenaline rush. 

not a bad day's work when you save a life :)