My (A.N.’s) first code was unpleasant — I doubt that they should ever be an en – joyable experience. However, it would have been highly useful to have had a degree of training to prepare me for what to expect and to afford me some degree of usefulness. Thrust into the emergency room within weeks of my arrival at Slave Lake Healthcare Centre, I embarked on a 9-month journey through the Rural Integrated Community Clerkship Program, an experience that brought me closer to the staff and granted me an intimate glimpse into the realities of rural medicine. In discussion with nursing staff, I noticed a palpable desire to prepare for the inevitable. In the rural hospital there is no luxury of having a trauma team or code squad. We were it.
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Canadian Journal of Rural Medicine [Spring 2012].
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