Life-saving CPR

Being a senior in nursing school it has become easy to dwell on the fact that I am graduating soon and will be expected to get out in the world and work, to put to practice what it is I have been studying for for the last four and a half years. Perhaps when people talk with me they might find that a career in nursing is not my number one goal and that I am not truly passionate about it compared to some. Though I’d say both of those statements are probably true, I don’t desire nursing as my ultimate career and I am not passionate about it as much as I am other things in life, I would also say that life-saving is important and it is something I look forward to being apart of. Life-saving is the calling and purpose of a nurse; to implement as much possible care for a patient that will promote health and life.

If there is one thing I've learned this semester in level 3 it’s CPR!!

Annie passes out in the floor… “Annie Annie, are you okay?” No response. Check her pulse. No pulse? Okay, start chest compressions. 30 compressions. Press the chest to the beat of the song “Staying Alive” just hard enough to crack a few ribs. 30 compressions complete, next check airway. Give 2 rescue breaths. Repeat until intervention works, CPR giver tires out, someone else takes over CPR, or person dies and is unable to be resuscitated.

A nurse’s goal is to always advocate and promote patient health, it is to go to great lengths to enable patients to live with as much physical, emotional, social, and spiritual well-being as possible. Life on this earth whether you’re resuscitated by CPR or not is short. There is an end. And after that end there is an eternity.  

As a believer in Christ it is my job to be an advocate of life for all people I meet. To go to great lengths to go, and serve, and love people, but most importantly to do so by telling of the saving grace that is offered by Jesus Christ.

It may be cheesy, but in the same way CPR is a pneumonic we all know stands for a method that brings someone back to life…  

CPR used to bring one life can stand for something like this:

Christ

Perished

[and was]

Resurrected

This is what brings life eternal. Believeing that Christ came and lived a perfect sinless life, that I cannot do. Believeing that He died for sin on the cross bearing all guilt and shame and was laid in a tomb. Believing that Jesus Christ, three days later, defeated death and rose again to life!! This is what is life-saving. This is the kind of CPR everyone should be given. Believing in Christ as the Son of the Most High God, His Perishing and His Resurrection as the ultimate intervention to withstand death deserved, hell.

Of course being a nurse is fruitful labor, it’s a rewarding career and I look forward to seeing how the Lord plans to use my degree. But a true lasting labor that I hope I am able to tire myself out for includes relationships I can invest in and tell this saving knowledge to.

I write this as reminder to myself that going to school, one day working in the nursing field, one day being a wife and mother- though all esteemed, important and needed jobs, they are not the kind of work that will last an eternity... Working without Christ as the center is like chasing the wind, it’s futile.

-LauraLBrown

 1 There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
6 For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace.
7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law; indeed, it cannot.
8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
10 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you!

Romans 8:1-11