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Code blue

A code blue is a health emergency in hospitals when a patient needs immediate medical

attention because of respiratory or cardiac arrest. Code blue is a situation that is very scary for

any patient or caregiver involved and this is especially people who have limited experience in

certain medical emergencies.

The situation

Death situations wake feelings of insecurity, helplessness, and insufficiency in

caregivers. As a nursing practitioner, it’s normal to talk about death. However, when such

situations happen, it becomes a very hard situation to cope up with. My situation was a scary one

and I needed to call for a code blue immediately for I feared for the death of the patient. This

was a life-threatening situation and everybody who was near the location came to the rescue.

Luckily, the situation was rescued. The patient was on the operating table when I noticed the

danger. This was a high-risk surgery and the situation was becoming hard to control. This led us

to call for a code blue (Cubitt, 2017).

Aesthetic Knowing

Nothing is more dramatic and challenging in medicine like managing a cardiac arrest.

This becomes the moment of truth that has no time to prepare and not time to refer in books

neither time to consult from other medical practitioners. Cardiac arrest is cannot be postponed or

like an office appointment. This needs an immediate response. Medical practitioners are

expected to know what to do in case of such situations. This way of knowing is very different

from the empirical way of knowing. In this case of cardiac arrest, the practitioner’s response is

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Running Head: CODE BLUE 1 Code blue Professor’s name Student’s name Course Date CODE BLUE 2 Code blue A code blue is a health emergency in hospitals when a patient needs immediate medical attention because of respiratory or cardiac arrest. Code blue is a situation that is very scary for any patient or caregiver involved and this is especially people who have limited experience in certain medical emergencies. The situation Death situations wake feelings of insecurity, helplessness, and insufficiency in caregivers. As a nursing practitioner, it’s normal to talk about death. However, when such situations happen, it becomes a very hard situation to cope up with. My situation was a scary one and I needed to call for a code blue immediately for I feared for the death of the patient. This was a life-threatening situation and everybody who was near the location came to the rescue. Luckily, the situation was rescued. The patient was on the operating table when I noticed the danger. This was a high-risk surgery and the situation was becoming hard to control. This led us to call for a code blue (Cubitt, 2017). Aesthetic Knowing Nothing is more dramatic and challenging in medicine ...
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