the first 72 hours of internship

the intern was awoken to the sound of her beeping alarm..she reached over and slammed the top of it before she jumped out of bed. The jump wasn't due to a surge of energy but a surge of nervousness...with in 20 minutes the intern was dressed, in her car, and driving to her destination: a small ambulance company in the middle of the dessert. After an hour and a half of driving through a busy freeway, and mountian canyon and miles of dessert she pulled up to the small station..which would not only be her home for the next 72 hours but for the next couple of months...........

nervousness to excitment to motion sickness to rattling her brain to starting ivs, back to nervousness and to excitment again...back and forth back and forth.....

tucking in her shirt to pulling up her hair..to slapping on latex gloves while the sun was blazing in the sky...to waking up to the call of her precepter to lacing up her steele toe boots...to walking out into the cold dessert night ..back and forth, back and forth...through out the next 72 hours....

through all this constant going the intern approuched eat call with anticipation, nervousness, excitment and a chance to walk onto the chaotic scene and start leading as a paranedic intern. from a pediatric bike crash to phyc patients to chest pain, to a whinning 20 year old drama queen to hopping through the broken window of a 93 year old ramblig women to a long transport to camp penalton..call after call the intern assessed and treated with the help of her understanding preceptor...she made it and can she do the next 72 hours next week?

by God 's grace, by prayer, by hard work this paramedic intern will jump through this hoop..in the strenght of God, in the representation of CHC, in the consideration of her patients in all to be a praemedic.

thank you God, for being with me.....