An Intern Avoiding Running a Code

[DavidChannin]

First thing to do at a code: take your own pulse.

[thushanthsriskandarajah]

3 imaginary people died in the making of this video 😂😂

[taikoshugon]

I remember my first code during my internship. Instead of taking the lead, I jumped and started CPR. The nurses had to tell me that it was my job to give orders.

[tealolly]

Once Housekeeping unknowingly pushed the code button while cleaning a peds ICU room around 3am. I (picu rn) wasn't wearing the code pager so was surprised to see the on call resident (intern) running down the halls (after taking the stairs) in response, his Harriet Lane pages flapping in the breeze, PALS cards dropping to the floor, glasses ajar, serious bedhead- it was quite a sight. Of course I quickly figured out it was a false alarm and while it was a bit comical, I really felt for him and his panic. No one wants to have that pager go off, but especially someone without experience/adequate resources. Doctors are people too!!

[tlpineapple]

as an EMT, the best advise i ever heard was codes are the easiest call you can run, the patients already dead, not much worse you can do to them.

[ACL]

I have so much respect for doctors. All of the clueless people commenting that he shouldn't be a doctor have clearly never worked in healthcare. If someone was pulseless and not breathing, and you had to be the person in charge when you've never been in charge before, you would be nervous! Even with all the necessary training, you would be nervous. That's the joke. It shouldn't have to be explained, but here we are...

[juliamundt]

Nothing is scarier than hearing a code blue announced over the PA system in a room your loved one is in, while standing in the cafeteria cashier line. You Doctors rock!

[TheMarshmellowLife]

I feel for you, learning to run a code is mostly trial by fire. Got to have someone standing over your shoulder to smack you when you get something wrong, but you have to do it. Love the skit

[bodyofhope]

As a sick patient, I find these videos very funny. So everyone in comments can calm down please ❤

[davidshanholtz]

If there were actually 3 codes running at one time, good grief what a mess!! 😳

Had a similar situation when I first became a nurse. I had been a CNA for years before becoming a nurse. Working in a Skilled Nursing/Rehabilitation Facility, there isn’t always a provider on site. We had the MD, 2 PA’s, and 2 NP’s that were all on call. If there was a code or any emergency, the nurses were in charge and we didn’t have a provider in the room giving orders. In the event of an emergency the CNA’s would have to get a nurse immediately. When I was a brand new nurse with my own assignment and an emergency took place with one of my patients, I instinctively wanted to say “go get the nurse!” It took me just a moment to realize “hey, that’s me now! I don’t get to go get someone else now! I’m it. It’s my time to shine!” Lol. Of course, I immediately ran down the hall and went into action. I knew what to do and wasn’t really fearful of that, rather still getting used to my new role/scope. Now, I have been a nurse for 10 years and sometimes the charge nurse on the unit, so I deal with these situations a lot now, when they arise.

[pixiedragon]

"Gotta replete magnesium" 😆🤣🤣 the shit you come up with Man. I love you, keep doin it.

[reginabahten]

Reminds me of my first code when I was an intern and all the ER docs and cardiologists and senior residents were at other codes or off campus. The nurses got me and the patient through it until a cardiologist showed up....we all survived to discharge.

[meganamos]

Whoops. These emails sure aren’t going to check themselves. Better get caught up before I rush off to run that code.

[SweetRian]

There was a fellow like this and I whispered to the charge nurse to call the attending. It was just one of those things and I knew she needed the back up since she was new to the unit

[paulmaster]

Oh man, I still remember. During my first surgery rotation in med school, for some reason I was alone with a nurse and a nursing student. All of a sudden a patient rings the bell and says his bedmate is breathing so funny and not responding to anything. I just had the shock of my life and thought, now I have to resuscitate right away. Fortunately, one of the doctors on the ward arrived just as I thought I would have to do chest compressions. It turned out that the patient had "only" a strange epileptic seizure.
But this feeling of being completely overwhelmed when it became clear to me that I would now be expected to play an active role in helping the Patient until the doctors arrived, I will not forget so quickly

[Hppyzmbie]

This was our nightmare scenario when I worked in a smaller 1 doctor hospital. Multiple codes meant that the hospitalist was going to have to take one of them since the ER Doc can’t run them all.

[andreaa.]

For anyone thinking these people are dying without treatment waiting for him - all nurses are training to run codes. It helps to have a doctor present, as most nurses don't have a frequent code experience themselves, but until someone arrives we are fully capable of doing almost everything the doctor would have ordered.

[lynnthomas]

What I'm getting from this is when I have a senior who says "I'll go to the code with you but you can run it", cry and go with the senior.

[.achyuthans]

Wow some people really dont get the point of the skit.
And to say "you should quit if you don't wanna do/know" is stupid because guess what, every doctor has experienced this exact scenario, if not verbally, atleast mentally because no medico is ever ready to respond to a code blue without having their brains frozen. Happens to literally every doc on the planet

[noahgrove]

We love to make jokes and give each other crap, but as a lowly EMT I have a huge admiration for doctors and nurses. You guys have such massive jobs to do!