You enter a patient's room to answer a call light and are surprised...

Question Answered step-by-step You enter a patient’s room to answer a call light and are surprised… You enter a patient’s room to answer a call light and are surprised to walk in on a physician who put on the call light because he needed help. This physician is doing a procedure unknown to you that involves IV solutions and medications. You are a new LPN graduate and have not yet been certified in IV therapy. There is an LPN student in the room looking frustrated and possibly frightened. The patient appears to be in pain and looks at you as though she hopes to be rescued. The physician seems frustrated and is tense and raining his voice. He appears to be unable to complete the procedure he has undertaken because both of his hands are full, and he needs one more thing done. You wonder whether he asked the student to assist with the IV medications and became frustrated when she said she couldn’t. All of these observations and considerations race through your mind in seconds. In addition, your blood pressure and heart rate increase because the adrenaline release caused by the situation. Then the physician says to you, “Finally, a nurse! Grab that medication (a syringe filled with ‘something’ sitting on the over bed table) and give it in the second IV port.”What do you do, and more important, how do you think it through? Health Science Science Nursing Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)