MAN: “Help me, I’m covered with radiation! Someone help me please!”
RN: “Sir, calm down. You’re going to be alright. But we have to help you so you going have to calm down first, so we can help.”
RN: “Come with me. We need to wash this dust off, ok. Come on…are you hurting anywhere?”
Patient: “No, I was inside during the explosion. But afterwards I came out and walked through this cloud of dust. Then everybody was saying it is radiation! I’ve been breathing this stuff in! Please help me I’m really scared!”
RN: We will, we will.
RN: “We’re going to get the contamination off and you’ll be fine.”
RN: “Ok, sir please put your valuables in this red bag. Then take this white gown and put it over your clothes. I going to have you undress underneath the gown and put your clothes in this orange bag. Then you’re going to go through the shower. I want you to scrub well especially where you had no clothes covering your body. Someone will help you on the other side.”
Patient: “Ok, ok.”
RN: “Are you ok Sir?”
Patient: “I worried you know there’s radiation in this stuff isn’t there.”
RN: “You are going to be alright. I know this is very upsetting. We need you to walk over to our staff member over here. They going to survey you body and make sure the contamination is gone. Then they are going to take you to another area where other staff members will talk to you about all of this and about radiation.”