Too many people died in our tiny ER this week. ICU patients admitted to med/surg because it's the best we can do. Patients we've tried to keep out of ICU for two weeks dying anyway. This is like nothing I've ever seen.
Oh no
Edit: for those of you that don’t doomscroll the nursing R*ddit “coding” is where people die/have to be resuscitated
A little bit ago, my partner had to go to the ER. They had to sit on a gurney in the hallway.
It was a very eye opening experience, but the image that I know will stick forever in my mind is the old man with wide eyes, clutching an iPad - it was playing a John Wayne western - as they wheeled his dying ass deeper into the hospital. He didn’t make eye contact with me but I knew 100% he was going to die.
Anyway, back to work! (I’m essential!)