Jimenem wrote:You are truly a blessing to this world Fluffs.
Only if more parents would rais their kids as you do your students. . .
Ditto.
Jimenem....don't lose heart. I used to see a lot of bad behavior in the ER, but we're more likely to take note of bad behavior than we are of good behavior.
I may have told these tales before but on 9/11 in the ER, there were not many patients and staff was able to watch some of the news. Of course, we were all stunned. I thought to myself, "We aren't going to have any patients today because everyone will be watching TV."
I could not have been more wrong. We got absolutely slammed with patients. There was a LONG wait for the ER...usually people would have gotten cranky, but the lobby full of people was unusually calm and quiet. People were patient and they were talking to each other....that didn't last a long time, but it was good to see.
On another occasion we had an emergency that was announced overhead Code Pink times two Trauma Center ETA 5 minutes. It was two 2 year old twins who weren't breathing because their house caught fire.
When something like that happens, it's obvious. Ambulances and fire trucks pull up outside. The ER gets locked down. MAchinery is everywhere in the hallways and staff are literally running around. My boss asked me to stay overtime (which I had to offset another day) and do the registrations. So I'm back in the trauma center trying to establish patient identity. The father was able to tell me the names of the sons by what clothing they were in. And he was being seen, too...
It was just complete chaos...something like that on TOP of an already busy ER. I had finally completed the registrations and was getting ready to clock out and a young gal came up to the desk. "Hey, is this gonna be taking much longer? I've been here a half hour and my throat REALLY HURTS."
I said, "We've had an emergency happen and they'll be with you as soon as they can...but critical patients in ambulances take priority."
And I still remember the girl....because I really ALMOST said "Oh I'm sure it's only going to take a minute or two to save these critical patients...sore throats sure are a giant emergency."
I began working a philosophy about 6 months ago. I was in Roscoe at my cousin's and as I was driving along the road to his place and there was a truck pulled off on the other side and it was obvious a bureau had fallen off his truck and was laying near the truck partially on the road.
I don't normally pull over to help drivers because I'm a single female, but in THIS case...it's obvious I was in no danger. I rode past and then I remembered, "BE the change you want to see in the world." I turned around and went back to help. This guy was just happily stunned.
Anyway...I digress. Our actions are examples.
I think maybe we allow stuff to happen