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Hi, I’m Will Cristobal and I’m an emergency room nurse. A typical day in ER is not really that typical because it’s always…it’s different. Everything is different every day.
0:21 mins
I mean, granted, you’ll see similar scenarios but each person is different. So, you have the non-critical to the extreme-critical.
0:30
I mean, for example, I’ll get a guy with a laceration. I will clean it up and the doctor will stitch it up. Nice.
0:37
Or someone will come in with abdominal pain. I’ll put an IV line in them, get their blood work, start IV fluids and give them pain medication to get them comfortable.
0:48
Or a guy will come in with complete cardiac arrest. The whole team is inside the resuscitation room and we’re pumping, we’re pumping, we’re pushing medications. We’re putting IV lines and shocking the patient, seeing if we’ll bring him back to life. Sometimes it’s successful, sometimes it’s not.
1:09 mins
Nursing school is really cool. I actually enjoyed it a lot. At first, it’s very nerve-wracking because you’re interacting with patients, you’re touching patients. I was one of the very few men in the classrooms but, I mean, it was not a problem.
1:27
The perception in nursing is typically… you think the nurse is a female when there’s 10 percent of the profession are males. There’s times when I’ve actually come in, saw my patient..Hi, doctor, how are ya? I’m like, no, I’m your nurse. And then, when the female doctor comes in it’s kind of like, this is your doctor. I’m your nurse.
1:45
So, I mean, it’s just really interesting, like, the dynamics with patients sometimes, and that I actually have to correct them. They always go, hey, you never thought about going to medical school? I’m like, no, I wanted to be a nurse. I enjoy nursing. I enjoy being at the bedside and taking care of my patients.
2:06
My career path after high school… I actually thought about doing physical therapy. I actually wanted to be in the health field.
2:12
I didn’t want to be a doctor, because I knew it was going to take so much time, so I thought about physical therapy. So, when I was at college I ended up taking classes geared towards physical therapy. And decided, I didn’t, don’t really like this stuff but I still wanted to stay in healthcare.
2:26
After college I ended up just trying to find odd jobs, things to do. I worked for health insurance. I worked for HR just trying to fit my personality.
2:36
At any rate, I thought it was boring and so, one day my uncle, my wife’s uncle, was like- why don’t you do nursing? He was a nurse. And so, I said, well, let me look into it.
2:48
I volunteered at this hospital. I observed the nurses and everything like that, the doctors and decided, this is actually a cool gig. I’ll do this. And so I applied to nursing school and luckily, I got in.
3:05
When it’s really, really busy, you may have a critical patient in one room, and then a person that’s not so critical, turn critical on you in the other room and you’re trying to balance everything out, while at the same time your doctor wants you to, you know, discharge a patient in the other room.
3:20
So, at any given time, I can have four patients but all four patients can want something all at the same time. You have to really like people, because you have to deal with a lot of personalities.
3:31
If you enjoy interacting with people, helping people, make people laugh, make people smile, this is a great career for you. I mean, if you love math, if you love sciences, I mean this is a great career to get into ‘cause you use a lot of that stuff.
3:45
I mean you have to, ‘cause you have to think about disease processes and so you have to think about your anatomy and biology and how the cells are working and whatnot.
3:53
The advice I’d give for high school students: volunteer. Go to your local hospital and volunteer.
3:58
It will give you a chance, you know, to know whether or not you want to do this because you’ll be in direct contact with nurses, you’ll be in direct contact with patients, you’ll be in direct contact with doctors. And so you get an overall chance to see exactly what this is about.
0:21 mins
I mean, granted, you’ll see similar scenarios but each person is different. So, you have the non-critical to the extreme-critical.
0:30
I mean, for example, I’ll get a guy with a laceration. I will clean it up and the doctor will stitch it up. Nice.
0:37
Or someone will come in with abdominal pain. I’ll put an IV line in them, get their blood work, start IV fluids and give them pain medication to get them comfortable.
0:48
Or a guy will come in with complete cardiac arrest. The whole team is inside the resuscitation room and we’re pumping, we’re pumping, we’re pushing medications. We’re putting IV lines and shocking the patient, seeing if we’ll bring him back to life. Sometimes it’s successful, sometimes it’s not.
1:09 mins
Nursing school is really cool. I actually enjoyed it a lot. At first, it’s very nerve-wracking because you’re interacting with patients, you’re touching patients. I was one of the very few men in the classrooms but, I mean, it was not a problem.
1:27
The perception in nursing is typically… you think the nurse is a female when there’s 10 percent of the profession are males. There’s times when I’ve actually come in, saw my patient..Hi, doctor, how are ya? I’m like, no, I’m your nurse. And then, when the female doctor comes in it’s kind of like, this is your doctor. I’m your nurse.
1:45
So, I mean, it’s just really interesting, like, the dynamics with patients sometimes, and that I actually have to correct them. They always go, hey, you never thought about going to medical school? I’m like, no, I wanted to be a nurse. I enjoy nursing. I enjoy being at the bedside and taking care of my patients.
2:06
My career path after high school… I actually thought about doing physical therapy. I actually wanted to be in the health field.
2:12
I didn’t want to be a doctor, because I knew it was going to take so much time, so I thought about physical therapy. So, when I was at college I ended up taking classes geared towards physical therapy. And decided, I didn’t, don’t really like this stuff but I still wanted to stay in healthcare.
2:26
After college I ended up just trying to find odd jobs, things to do. I worked for health insurance. I worked for HR just trying to fit my personality.
2:36
At any rate, I thought it was boring and so, one day my uncle, my wife’s uncle, was like- why don’t you do nursing? He was a nurse. And so, I said, well, let me look into it.
2:48
I volunteered at this hospital. I observed the nurses and everything like that, the doctors and decided, this is actually a cool gig. I’ll do this. And so I applied to nursing school and luckily, I got in.
3:05
When it’s really, really busy, you may have a critical patient in one room, and then a person that’s not so critical, turn critical on you in the other room and you’re trying to balance everything out, while at the same time your doctor wants you to, you know, discharge a patient in the other room.
3:20
So, at any given time, I can have four patients but all four patients can want something all at the same time. You have to really like people, because you have to deal with a lot of personalities.
3:31
If you enjoy interacting with people, helping people, make people laugh, make people smile, this is a great career for you. I mean, if you love math, if you love sciences, I mean this is a great career to get into ‘cause you use a lot of that stuff.
3:45
I mean you have to, ‘cause you have to think about disease processes and so you have to think about your anatomy and biology and how the cells are working and whatnot.
3:53
The advice I’d give for high school students: volunteer. Go to your local hospital and volunteer.
3:58
It will give you a chance, you know, to know whether or not you want to do this because you’ll be in direct contact with nurses, you’ll be in direct contact with patients, you’ll be in direct contact with doctors. And so you get an overall chance to see exactly what this is about.
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Hi, I’m Will Cristobal and I’m an emergency room nurse. A typical day in ER is not really that typical because it’s always…it’s different. Everything is different every day.
0:21 mins
I mean, granted, you’ll see similar scenarios but each person is different. So, you have the non-critical to the extreme-critical.
0:30
I mean, for example, I’ll get a guy with a laceration. I will clean it up and the doctor will stitch it up. Nice.
0:37
Or someone will come in with abdominal pain. I’ll put an IV line in them, get their blood work, start IV fluids and give them pain medication to get them comfortable.
0:48
Or a guy will come in with complete cardiac arrest. The whole team is inside the resuscitation room and we’re pumping, we’re pumping, we’re pushing medications. We’re putting IV lines and shocking the patient, seeing if we’ll bring him back to life. Sometimes it’s successful, sometimes it’s not.
1:09 mins
Nursing school is really cool. I actually enjoyed it a lot. At first, it’s very nerve-wracking because you’re interacting with patients, you’re touching patients. I was one of the very few men in the classrooms but, I mean, it was not a problem.
1:27
The perception in nursing is typically… you think the nurse is a female when there’s 10 percent of the profession are males. There’s times when I’ve actually come in, saw my patient..Hi, doctor, how are ya? I’m like, no, I’m your nurse. And then, when the female doctor comes in it’s kind of like, this is your doctor. I’m your nurse.
1:45
So, I mean, it’s just really interesting, like, the dynamics with patients sometimes, and that I actually have to correct them. They always go, hey, you never thought about going to medical school? I’m like, no, I wanted to be a nurse. I enjoy nursing. I enjoy being at the bedside and taking care of my patients.
2:06
My career path after high school… I actually thought about doing physical therapy. I actually wanted to be in the health field.
2:12
I didn’t want to be a doctor, because I knew it was going to take so much time, so I thought about physical therapy. So, when I was at college I ended up taking classes geared towards physical therapy. And decided, I didn’t, don’t really like this stuff but I still wanted to stay in healthcare.
2:26
After college I ended up just trying to find odd jobs, things to do. I worked for health insurance. I worked for HR just trying to fit my personality.
2:36
At any rate, I thought it was boring and so, one day my uncle, my wife’s uncle, was like- why don’t you do nursing? He was a nurse. And so, I said, well, let me look into it.
2:48
I volunteered at this hospital. I observed the nurses and everything like that, the doctors and decided, this is actually a cool gig. I’ll do this. And so I applied to nursing school and luckily, I got in.
3:05
When it’s really, really busy, you may have a critical patient in one room, and then a person that’s not so critical, turn critical on you in the other room and you’re trying to balance everything out, while at the same time your doctor wants you to, you know, discharge a patient in the other room.
3:20
So, at any given time, I can have four patients but all four patients can want something all at the same time. You have to really like people, because you have to deal with a lot of personalities.
3:31
If you enjoy interacting with people, helping people, make people laugh, make people smile, this is a great career for you. I mean, if you love math, if you love sciences, I mean this is a great career to get into ‘cause you use a lot of that stuff.
3:45
I mean you have to, ‘cause you have to think about disease processes and so you have to think about your anatomy and biology and how the cells are working and whatnot.
3:53
The advice I’d give for high school students: volunteer. Go to your local hospital and volunteer.
3:58
It will give you a chance, you know, to know whether or not you want to do this because you’ll be in direct contact with nurses, you’ll be in direct contact with patients, you’ll be in direct contact with doctors. And so you get an overall chance to see exactly what this is about.
0:21 mins
I mean, granted, you’ll see similar scenarios but each person is different. So, you have the non-critical to the extreme-critical.
0:30
I mean, for example, I’ll get a guy with a laceration. I will clean it up and the doctor will stitch it up. Nice.
0:37
Or someone will come in with abdominal pain. I’ll put an IV line in them, get their blood work, start IV fluids and give them pain medication to get them comfortable.
0:48
Or a guy will come in with complete cardiac arrest. The whole team is inside the resuscitation room and we’re pumping, we’re pumping, we’re pushing medications. We’re putting IV lines and shocking the patient, seeing if we’ll bring him back to life. Sometimes it’s successful, sometimes it’s not.
1:09 mins
Nursing school is really cool. I actually enjoyed it a lot. At first, it’s very nerve-wracking because you’re interacting with patients, you’re touching patients. I was one of the very few men in the classrooms but, I mean, it was not a problem.
1:27
The perception in nursing is typically… you think the nurse is a female when there’s 10 percent of the profession are males. There’s times when I’ve actually come in, saw my patient..Hi, doctor, how are ya? I’m like, no, I’m your nurse. And then, when the female doctor comes in it’s kind of like, this is your doctor. I’m your nurse.
1:45
So, I mean, it’s just really interesting, like, the dynamics with patients sometimes, and that I actually have to correct them. They always go, hey, you never thought about going to medical school? I’m like, no, I wanted to be a nurse. I enjoy nursing. I enjoy being at the bedside and taking care of my patients.
2:06
My career path after high school… I actually thought about doing physical therapy. I actually wanted to be in the health field.
2:12
I didn’t want to be a doctor, because I knew it was going to take so much time, so I thought about physical therapy. So, when I was at college I ended up taking classes geared towards physical therapy. And decided, I didn’t, don’t really like this stuff but I still wanted to stay in healthcare.
2:26
After college I ended up just trying to find odd jobs, things to do. I worked for health insurance. I worked for HR just trying to fit my personality.
2:36
At any rate, I thought it was boring and so, one day my uncle, my wife’s uncle, was like- why don’t you do nursing? He was a nurse. And so, I said, well, let me look into it.
2:48
I volunteered at this hospital. I observed the nurses and everything like that, the doctors and decided, this is actually a cool gig. I’ll do this. And so I applied to nursing school and luckily, I got in.
3:05
When it’s really, really busy, you may have a critical patient in one room, and then a person that’s not so critical, turn critical on you in the other room and you’re trying to balance everything out, while at the same time your doctor wants you to, you know, discharge a patient in the other room.
3:20
So, at any given time, I can have four patients but all four patients can want something all at the same time. You have to really like people, because you have to deal with a lot of personalities.
3:31
If you enjoy interacting with people, helping people, make people laugh, make people smile, this is a great career for you. I mean, if you love math, if you love sciences, I mean this is a great career to get into ‘cause you use a lot of that stuff.
3:45
I mean you have to, ‘cause you have to think about disease processes and so you have to think about your anatomy and biology and how the cells are working and whatnot.
3:53
The advice I’d give for high school students: volunteer. Go to your local hospital and volunteer.
3:58
It will give you a chance, you know, to know whether or not you want to do this because you’ll be in direct contact with nurses, you’ll be in direct contact with patients, you’ll be in direct contact with doctors. And so you get an overall chance to see exactly what this is about.
There is a transcript to accompany the video.
Please send me you scores. Teacher Code HUPM
Thank you!
Please send me you scores. Teacher Code HUPM
Thank you!