mursing

My wife and I recently moved back to the town she grew up in so I could attend nursing school. I have had the privilege to spend a majority of my clinical time in a burn ICU. I failed at the opportunity today to do something that the professors have been trying to instill in us for the past 8 or so months that is an essential aspect of nursing care: Educating the general public. We were on our way home and had to fill the truck with gas when a hail storm hit our town. Much to my surprise, a carload of folks came whipping under the cover of the gas station at our corner grocery store and the female passenger chucked a cigarette butt out the window onto the asphalt. The glare I received after I watched the butt hit the ground could have frozen hell. The sheer lack of concern or pure ignorance amazes me. I only hope is that in the future she doesn’t end up on the unit along with the 20 (unaware), or uncountless others that she put at risk for her actions. She needs to see the pain and agony of our patients that have been harmed by the thoughtless action of others. I haven’t lost hope in common sense…yet. It will warm the cockles of my professors heart’s that I will not pass up another opportunity.

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