Daughter helped save a life today
 

My youngest, Meghan, blessed with three daughters, works on CCU floor.
Youngest RN on floor, they waived the 3-year work history, as she did her clinicals there.
Been full-time for almost two years, learns something new everyday, likes the challenge.
This AM a patient coded, her charge nurse grabbed her and advised she would do more than observe.
Doc told her to straddle the patient and give compressions, very physical, she did excellent, doctor commended her, the patient will live to enjoy another hospital lunch.

Great feeling to know your children are in a career they love, and making an impact.

I take no credit, her mom did all the heavy lifting.

And yes, here she is, great kid, her smile is her best asset!!

WOW !

Damn, I'd fake a code to get her to work on me.

Awesome all across the board!

Very cool! :seasix:

Some days will be a success like this, some will not.

My daughter is studying to be a nurse and they're aren't enough out there. Keep up the good work!

Kudos for your daughter! Great job! I built a home in Coral Springs back in 1978. I was on the fire dept there for over 10 years. Became fire chief. Good ol days!

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They’re angels here on Earth, these nurses!

Bless her and the Mrs!

I wish you daughter the VERY BEST!!

Nurses are special.
Wifey has been a nurse for 35 years, pediatric intensive care.
Middle daugher has been a nurse for 2 years, mothers and babies.
Youngest has been a nurse for 2 years, cardiac care unit.
Oldest daughter is a medical lab worker.
M-I-L was a nurse for 40+ years, retired now, and ignoring all doctor's orders.

Hubba hubba. :seasix:

I guess fire chiefs in Coral Springs don't earn enough money to buy a photo scanner... :lol:

Coral Springs has grown since then.
Now there are 135K residents, 8 total fire stations, 3 are in Parkland as they contract services.
You should have stayed here, as I think the fire captain makes $200K/year.

They sure do have the purdiest fire stations:

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Amazing looking woman, too. She must be adopted, right?

Nice highjack brohiem....

Wifey dominant gene pool!!

Rightfully proud.

She is very beautiful. Your wife must also be a fine looking lady. :cert:

I disagree,sorry.....she does have a great smile no doubt but the brain and soul that makes her her is by far her best asset ! God bless her !

Thank gawd fer that. ;)

Pretty smiles are a dime a dozen, having the brains to not get by just on looks is pretty darn rare.

This is about a gorgeous, talented, high-functioning young lady. Not a short, balding guy with a pornstache. :)

Congrats, Badcad. :seasix:

She is smart AND hard-working.

The hospital rule is you must have three years of nursing experience to get into the CCU floor, they waived for her due to she did her college credits there.

She often takes a 4th 12-hour shift each week, she gets OT for the entire fourth shift, which helps fund her purse collection.

How does she feel about 60-somethingyear-old bald guys who smell like crankcase blowby and bourbon?:)

I feel for her SO!:sadangel:

She is in a relationship for over a year, appears to be serious. as she is moving in with him, and he got her a dozen golf lessons.

I would meet you for drinks, no homo thingy, just like your roll and your unsurpassed car knowledge, and your politicis.

That is one lucky young man because she is a winner in addition to her beauty.

There had to be a downside after all lol

The wait lists, can be years! :yesnod:

You know purses!!
She has no Hermes YET, but has more than a few $3K ones.
She got me a LV money clip that is still in the box, I am a simple man.

I only mentioned it because of her Miss Coral Springs photo....small world...:yesnod:

Rickles + Jewish wife= Best of the best or no BJ....:sadangel:

Please comment whatever you chose, I appreciated it!!

My sister lives near you in New Hope, her closet has a second closet for her purses and shoes, many of her purses, and some shoes, appear to have never been taken out of the packaging.

Her husband spoils her, she spoils him, it works well!!

Isn't it the off the wall, sideway comments coming at you, oddball posts to a thread that make them great?

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Tell your sis n hubby, I'll buy them a drink anytime!:cert:

I will, they are not there as much as the past, as travel a lot with their boat.
They love New Hope, left Princeton 15 years ago and never looked back.

BTW, I have dined at Bowman's, great burgers!!

My niece is a pediatric ICU nurse as well. VERY caring woman, extremely smart, and excellent people skills. She has found it very rewarding, but with that great reward comes that potential for great heartbreak.

God bless our nurses!

I'm sure in this amount of time, she's seen people die in the hospital, which has to weigh on people after a while. I can't imagine what a rush it would be to know you SAVED a life, right then and there.

"Not today, death......not on my watch."

A guy who I used to ride with made custom motorcycle seats usually HD. He went through a divorce and the judge awarded him her purses worth 10’s of thousands. Probably over 100k.

He cut them all up and used the leather to make seats. :Jeff '79:

You are very accurate!!
She has lost some patients over her first two years.
One was very difficult, as was admitted without life-threatening conditions, took a turn for the worse, died in front of her when the code was unsuccessful.
This really wore on her, she cried for a few days, sleep was difficult.
Patient was younger, had 20-something daughter always at her bedside, daughter was devastated.

I still remember attending my wife's Nurse Pinning Ceremony when she graduated in 1989, we were dating at the time.
The speaker for the ceremony was the dean for the college of nursing, and she told a story that a student once asked her was it normal to cry when a nurse loses a patient.
Her reply was when you stop crying, it is time to stop being a nurse--I will never forget those words.

Lucky man and a fine young woman. You should be very proud.

The things I value the most in life are not purchased, they are blessings.
I will try to earn them before I leave.

Looking at that picture, I think I have an irregular heartbeat - may require hospitalization:)

Its nice when your grown kids finally land in a profession they love and excel in. After several career "dead end" spots, my 44 year old daughter is now a VP with Citibank and is digging it so far..

Agreed. I see sooooo many 'failure to launch' kids these days it's refreshing to se successful, grounded young people. Is it coincidence that they're the ones with conservative parents?

That's only part of it. When our kids were babies Baby Doll read a study of successful people, and researched what their parent were like. Almost as a rule, the mother was nurturing, and the father was borderline dictatorial.

Both my kids are successful. :seasix:

That is exactly how I grew up.
Mom was Mother Teresa.
Dad was Benito Mussolini.

So, you're a dictater..... ex. Yaddie said GTO's dictated sweaty :funnier:

Your mind went there, not mine. :Jeff '79:

Job well done
 

As someone who has survived a full-code…thank your daughter for choosing (and excelling at) the profession she did. :yesnod: :seasix:

My wife was a High Risk OB Nurse for 35 years. She has seen things that are just imaginable. Babies born with horrific deformities.

Ha ! Teacher told my parents in a parent-teacher's meeting that I might have ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) which would require pharmaceuticals. Later that evening Dad called it "daydreaming in class" and cured it with a single application of his old Marine Corps belt. A medical miracle !!

My granddaughter is a 16 year old Battalion Commander in Navy JROTC and has been invited to visit both West Point and Annapolis this summer. She's in charge of 1/3 of her school's cadets (commanding 90 students). Her parents and I decided when she was in the 8th grade to snatch her out of public schools; they are a joke now.

Great job by your daughter and the rest of your family. My GF is a peds neuro-trauma nurse. With staffing shortages and burnout, it's a tough time to be a nurse.

A downside to being married to a nurse is that IMO, they become somewhat desensitized to seeing the human body.

Seen one, ya seen um all....

Or maybe, she's just seen better....:leaving:


:D

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A few stories over the years, not better but bigger!:rofl:

Nonsense. Just because Yadkin can't be my parent doesn't mean he can't be a life-coach and role model to me. I'm learning a LOT about steel sinks this week. Carry on.:seasix: