Arise and Shine - How to Be the Light That Ignites Hope in a Dark World

Informationen zum Autor Allyson Golden is the creator of the online ministry Words Are Golden, where she champions women in their faith. A pediatric nurse, Allyson also runs an online community for women called She Who Speaks Light and is the author of the inspirational journal Words Are Golden. She is currently enrolled in seminary to obtain her master of biblical and theological studies. Allyson and her husband, Michael, partner in ministry at their local church in San Diego. Klappentext "An empowering, encouraging message to be a light for Christ amid the darkness and pain in this world, by the inspirational Instagram writer of Words Are Golden"-- Leseprobe Where Is the Light? An Introduction I will never forget that night. Even though I was a trained pediatric nurse, no class or person could have prepared me for what happened. During my drive to the hospital that evening, I prayed that God would guide me as I worked. I had just hit my year-­and-­a-­half mark, so I was still a relatively new nurse. I prayed for a good patient assignment because, let’s be real, no nurse ever wants to have a hard shift. As I took the elevator to my unit, I continued to ask God to equip me for the night. The first thing I typically do is head to the nurse’s station, sit down at a computer, and look at the whiteboard that has the nurses’ names next to our assigned patients. When I wrote down the room numbers of my patients, I noticed my name next to a patient who had been on the unit for many months. In most hospitals, nurses can request to be assigned to long-­term patients since continuity of care is nice for the nurse and the patient. However, I had never requested this patient and had taken care of him only once before. I looked around the station and noticed there were other nurses on duty who had requested this patient but had not been assigned to him, but I didn’t say anything. I jotted down pertinent information from the computer about all my patients onto the piece of paper nurses call our “brain,” which I would carry around during my twelve-­hour shift. I went into each of my patients’ rooms, took their vitals, gave them their meds, reviewed the plan of care with them, and then began to do my charting. The last one on my rounds was the long-­term patient. I knew he had gone through some really hard things. He was getting better physically but, unbeknownst to me, was still struggling emotionally. I didn’t know him well, so when I was in his room, I didn’t sense that anything was off. I gave him his medications at eight o’clock and left to allow him to get a good night’s sleep. However, around eleven o’clock, his call light beeped. He probably just has a headache and wants some Tylenol. When I opened the door to his room, an eerie silence greeted me. The lights were off, and as I flipped the switch on, I asked, “Is there anything I can get you? I saw that you called the nurse’s station.” I pulled the curtain back, and my heart leaped out of my chest as I realized that he had attempted to end his life and must have pushed the call button accidentally (or changed his mind) right before he passed out. I yelled for help and checked to make sure he still had a pulse. A co-worker ran in, realized what was going on, and called for more help. We initiated a code blue to get the ICU team to come quickly and continued to do everything we could to save him. By the grace of God, he lived and was okay. As everything began to calm down, I walked out of the patient’s room and . . . I lost it. I realized that I was not okay. I could not believe what had just happened. I was hyperventilating. I could hardly get words to come out of my mouth, but the tears would not stop flowing. Another nurse took me into our break room so that I could have some space to try to pull myself together. I could tell I wouldn’t be able t...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Allyson Golden, Madison Prewett Troutt
• Verlag: Waterbrook press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 05.03.2024
• EAN: 9780593600658
• ISBN: 978-0-593-60065-8
• Seiten: 208
• Abmessung: 145 mm x 217 mm x 20 mm
• Thema: Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Religion: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke