chaos donkey

Usually a critical care or emergency medicine nurse who is “here for it”. The one who runs a tight ship and you the one look to when you don’t know what to do. They have a poker face you couldn’t break with a hammer and their internal dialog is 99% expletives and the constant sound of screechy, rusty airplane breaks coming to a halt. The one that calmly tells you to call a code and then 30 seconds later, opens epinephrine with their teeth. This nurse usually burns out quickly and drinks after work.

Did you see Alyssa during that trauma? She is a total chaos donkey the way she stopped the bleeding with her foot while putting an IV in that guy without a single twitch or moment of hesitation!