Several nurses have been featured in the news lately for saving people's lives while off the job.
Four nurses who have saved lives outside the workplace:
1. Carmen Roman, a practicing nurse in Florida, gave a man chest compressions after his minivan crashed into her house on July 25, Fox affiliate WFOL reported. The man was unresponsive when Ms. Roman found him, but he revived after the chest compressions.
2. Tracy Ryan responded quickly when a young girl nearly drowned at the Cherry Creek Reservoir in Colorado on July 28. Ms. Ryan administered CPR while a team of at least 2 other nurses and a neurologist, who also happened to be on-site, alternated giving chest compressions, reported NBC affiliate KUSA. The girl was revived after 10 minutes.
3. Amy Koehler, PhD, RN, a professor at Winona (Minn.) State University and part-time hospice nurse at Winona Health, pulled over to the side of the road after seeing a car flipped over in the middle of a Minnesota highway. A family climbed out of the car with no critical injuries, and Dr. Koehler guided them to the road median for immediate treatment while her daughter called 911, according to The Winona Post.
4. Alethea Bateman, an acute care nurse at West Virginia University Medicine Camden Clark Medical Center in Parkersburg, administered two rounds of CPR to save a boy's life when he nearly drowned at the Marietta Aquatic Center in Ohio.