Xinhua News Agency, Chengdu, May 11 (Reporter Dong Xiaohong) They are busy in the intensive care unit and on the front line of the emergency department. They insist on leaving the best for the patients.
Walking fast and talking in a hurry are the first impressions of Feng Jing.
Checking the doctor’s order, turning over the patient to expectorate… Feng Jing, the head nurse of the Second Ward of the Intensive Medicine Department of the Chengdu Public Health Clinical Medical Center, is very skilled, and her eyes are focused and firm.
Feng Jing works in the ward. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Liu Kun
The Chengdu Public Health Clinical Medical Center gathers patients of various infectious diseases, and it is also a designated hospital for the treatment of patients with new coronary pneumonia, and medical staff are facing greater pressure. She often works in the ward for seven or eight hours before she comes out. Sometimes she wears protective clothing for too long, and she feels dizzy and nauseous, so she has to persevere.
In front of the patient, she is always smiling, calm and capable. “When the patient’s condition is repeated and the work pressure is particularly high, I can’t help but want to cry, but in front of the patient, I must smile again. Calm down and the patient will feel at ease,” she said.
At 11:00 in the middle of the night, the ambulance rushed into the emergency passage of the First Affiliated Hospital of Chengdu Medical College. Song Shifu, a male nurse in the emergency department, immediately trotted the patient into the emergency room.
Nurse Song Shifu (second from right) is transferring emergency patients. (Photo provided by the interviewee)
Song Shifu said that rescues similar to the “speed of life and death” are experienced several times a day. There are so many uncertainties.
On June 15, 2021, Song Shifu followed an ambulance to see a patient. When I arrived at the patient’s home, I found that it was an old man who only said that he was dizzy and had no other symptoms.
Song Shifu repeatedly asked the patient whether he had a history of underlying diseases or trauma, but the answer was “no”. After the ambulance returned to the hospital, Song Shifu, who was really worried, contacted the department again and transferred the patient to the radiology department for an “emergency CT” examination.
The CT scan showed that the patient’s liver tumor had ruptured. After Song Shifu and the emergency doctor confirmed it, they immediately notified the relevant departments for emergency treatment. Subsequently, the patient was out of danger in time due to the rescue.
Song Shifu believes that male nurses have an advantage in the emergency department. Whenever he needs to lift or carry a patient, Song Shifu always runs at the front and tries his best to save time for the patient. A string of “tense” is stretched, and I dare not relax in the slightest.