Ye Xin, a model hero in the fight against SARS, was originally the head nurse of the emergency department of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. She was the youngest head nurse in the hospital. She gave her precious life on the battlefield against SARS. Was named one of the 100 people who touched China since the founding of New China. There is also information on several other people with the same name.
Ye Xin was born on July 9, 1956 in Xuwen County, Zhanjiang City, Guangdong into a medical family. In 1974, he was recruited into the health training team of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. When I graduated in 1976, I was asked to work in the hospital because I ranked among the best in the nursing ability test. In 1983, she was promoted
to head nurse of the emergency department of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. She was the youngest head nurse in the hospital. On September 14, 2009, she was named one of the 100 people who have touched China since the founding of New China. The emergency department is the largest nursing unit of the Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, consisting of six departments: 120, infusion room, blood drawing room, injection room, observation room, and treatment room. The "fast, timely and effective" nature of work, complex and changeable illnesses, and shocking situations require head nurses not only to have superb nursing expertise, but also to have leadership skills and calm and quick thinking skills that are fearless and decisive in the face of danger. At the moment of life and death, in a working environment with an atmosphere of pain, wailing, and helplessness, every medical staff must have a strong body and good psychological quality. For women, this is a huge physical and mental challenge. Ye Xin has been working in the emergency department for decades. Whenever patients with infectious diseases come to the emergency department, Ye Xin always takes the lead, charging ahead and trying not to let the young nurses get involved. Every time she always says: You are still young, this disease is dangerous! When dealing with such patients, she always takes care of them with extra patience and meticulousness, without a trace of disdain. For patients from poor families, she even took the initiative to provide money to buy medicines for them. She often said to the nurses: "It is unfortunate enough for patients to contract infectious diseases, but the psychological damage caused by social discrimination may be more painful than the pain! As nurses, on the one hand, we must solve their physical pain, and more importantly, we must provide them with The power of love, the power of life!” Once, a nurse who had just started working caused dissatisfaction with a patient when she served a patient. Ye Xin took the initiative to visit the patient’s home to apologize and make self-criticism. When the Ersha Branch of the Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine was first established, Ye Xin took the initiative and offered to serve as the head nurse in the Ersha Emergency Department, responsible for the heavy nursing work. In 2001, a critically ill patient from a mountainous area in Fujian went to the emergency department for treatment. As soon as his condition stabilized, he hurriedly asked to go home. Ye Xin tried her best to persuade her, but the patient refused to listen, so the department decided to send the patient home in an ambulance. Ye Xin took the initiative to apply for care along the way. After 22 hours of bumpy and nursing care, the patient got home safely, but she was too tired to straighten her back. In order to get back to work as soon as possible, Ye Xin took a flight back to Guangzhou at her own expense the next morning. Around the Spring Festival in 2003, a type of atypical pneumonia of unknown cause began to spread in some areas of Guangzhou. Just after early February, the Ersha Emergency Department of the Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine began to treat patients diagnosed or suspected of SARS, with a maximum of five patients a day. Faced with a doubling of her workload, Ye Xin carefully planned and calmly deployed, and when she readjusted her classes, she arranged intensive classes. With the sharp increase in SARS patients, the Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine made an immediate decision and urgently transferred some nurses from the emergency department of Ersha Branch to reinforce the hospital headquarters in the city center. There is an obvious shortage of nurses in Ersha's emergency department. Ye Xin took the lead and started working overtime on February 8. At noon on March 4, Ye Xin, who was extremely tired, began to have fever symptoms and was later diagnosed with SARS. In order to treat Ye Xin, the hospital set up a treatment team in the shortest possible time. Ye Xin's condition affects almost everyone's heart. Zhang Dejiang, Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, entrusted Secretary-General Cai Dongshi to express condolences to her and her family; Vice Governor Lei Yulan, accompanied by Huang Yebin, Deputy Secretary-General of the Provincial Government, and Huang Qingdao, Director of the Provincial Department of Health, personally went to the hospital to understand the treatment situation. Leaders from the Provincial Department of Health, the Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine also provided technical, material, and equipment support to rescue Ye Xin.
Overloaded and stressful work often leaves people no time to take care of loose masks; severe physical overdraft allows diseases to take advantage of the situation. Some nurses fell ill, and Ye Xin was worried. Every day when she went to work, the first thing she did was to fetch boiled water and preventive medicine, and watch everyone take them. She earnestly reminded everyone to implement various isolation measures. From doctors to caregivers, no one should be left behind. The rigor and conscientiousness of his inspections are almost to the point of being picky. With the sharp increase in SARS patients, the Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine made an immediate decision and urgently transferred some nurses from the emergency department of Ersha Branch to reinforce the hospital headquarters in the city center. There is an obvious shortage of nurses in Ersha's emergency department. Ye Xin took the lead and started working overtime on February 8. When she was busy, she even refused to answer calls from her family. This is a difficult blocking battle. During the treatment of SARS patients, head nurse Ye noticed that many critically ill patients often suffered from other serious diseases at the same time. The originally weak body is obviously no match for the new disease, and multiple organ failure may occur at any time. At this moment, saving lives requires not only a high sense of responsibility, but also superb technology and full collaboration among medical staff. Mr. Liang, a patient with existing coronary heart disease and undergoing cardiac bypass surgery, came to the emergency department due to fever and cough. His condition deteriorated sharply in a short period of time, with difficulty breathing, irritability, cyanosis, heart failure, and respiratory failure. Nurse Ye Xin rushed over quickly and skillfully raised the hospital bed so that the patient was in a semi-sitting and recumbent position. At the same time, he administered oxygen through a mask, connected the bedside electrocardiogram, blood pressure and oxygen saturation monitors, and intravenously injected cardiotonic drugs and vasoactive drugs. Drugs, respiratory stimulants, monitoring heart rate, blood pressure, respiration... Two hours later, the patient was finally out of danger. Nurse Ye ignored the rest and dragged her exhausted body back to rescuing another patient. Because there are still nursing tasks for Xian Bo in bed 7 and Gao Bo in bed 9 who are on ventilators, waiting for her to check... In this way, high-risk, high-intensity, and high-efficiency work has always been with Ye Xin. She was like a never-tiring machine running at full speed, snatching one patient after another from the hands of death. But who would have thought that at this moment, Ye Xin was enduring the torment of her own illness to complete rescue and care operations again and again. In order to keep the patient's respiratory tract open, a large amount of thick bloody sputum blocking it must be removed, and this is the most contagious. The rescue of a severely ill SARS patient is often accompanied by the collapse of multiple medical staff. In the face of the raging SARS, danger and death are so real to medical staff. "It's dangerous here, let me do it!" Ye Xin and Zhang Zhongde, director of the Ersha Emergency Department, silently made a sincere and regretless choice - to do their best to take over the examination, rescue, treatment and care of critical SARS patients. Sometimes, He even locked out his colleagues and acted harshly, leaving no possibility of negotiation. They know very well that they may fall down one day, but they are willing to prevent or reduce the risk of infection to their colleagues! "Don't come close to me, you'll be infected!" February 24 was a tense but ordinary day for Ye Xin. When I was working the night shift the night before yesterday, I felt sore all over my body and very tired. Since the emergence of SARS patients in the emergency department, she no longer has the concept of holidays or weekends. In recent times, she has obviously felt low on energy, especially cervical spondylosis, lumbar spondylosis and knee joint disease, which seem to be coming at once, but there are too many things that require her in the emergency department, and she can't let go. She was even more afraid to tell her colleagues and leaders about her illness, otherwise she would be forced to rest again. In the morning, an acute abdomen patient with suspected intestinal obstruction came to the emergency department and required emergency surgery. At the same time, some of the patient's symptoms attracted the great attention of medical staff. With the feedback of the test results, the suspicion was finally confirmed: it was SARS! Immediately afterwards, the patient's condition took a turn for the worse, and all serious symptoms appeared. This was a severely "toxic" patient! Nurse Ye and members of the expert team quickly started rescue work: tracheal intubation and ventilator placement. As time passed, the patient was finally brought back from the brink of death. But it was at this time that the SARS virus broke into Ye Xin, who had been fighting on the front line for many days.
Saving lives and healing the wounded has become a part of her humanity, and nursing work is almost an instinctive devotion to Ye Xin! Dean Lu Yubo could not forget that Ye Xin joined the health training team of the Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine at the same time as him after returning to the city as an educated youth. After he became the dean, Ye Xin only had two interviews with him on the phone. Once, when the Ersha branch was just established, she took the initiative to serve as the head nurse in the Ersha Emergency Department, responsible for the heavy nursing work; another time, when a nurse who had just started working served patients caused dissatisfaction among the patients, Ye Xin took the initiative. Go to the patient's home to apologize, and then call him to criticize yourself. With the rapid development of emergency technology and the rapid updating of emergency treatment equipment, Ye Xin has never given up on studying new knowledge. She is always the first to grasp the latest technology, even those little nurses who think highly of themselves feel ashamed. In 1995, Ye Xin won the third prize of the Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine's Scientific and Technological Progress Award for her "Application Research on the Treatment and Nursing Care of Bedsores with A Yellow Membrane Liquid", achieving a breakthrough in scientific and technological innovation in the hospital's nursing subjects. Until her death, she published 13 papers. On Ye Xin's desk, there was a thick work record written on the back of a discarded laboratory test sheet. Bit by bit, her footsteps of fighting in this smokeless battle are recorded, embodying her lifelong love and pursuit of the nursing profession.
Write sincerity with life
On the battlefield against SARS, the majority of medical workers held high the banner of Bethune’s spirit, were selfless and fearless, charged forward, and wrote the story of saving lives and helping the wounded with their lives. A magnificent chapter. When the magnolia flowers were blooming, Ye Xin, the head nurse of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, passed away forever. She died on the battlefield against SARS. Before her death, she left an unforgettable sentence: This place is dangerous, let me come. Leaving risks to yourself and leaving safety to patients is the lofty spiritual state of countless medical workers. It was thanks to the tenacious fight of a large number of soldiers in white that the spread of SARS was curbed. Only then can the people enjoy a peaceful life. ——"People's Daily" commented on April 18: "People's health is more important than Mount Tai" "Every great doctor must have no desires and desires, and vow to save the suffering of souls. Do not look forward or backward, worry about good or bad luck, and protect your body and life. . Day and night, cold and heat, hunger, thirst, fatigue, wholeheartedly go to rescue." Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, ranked this "Great Doctor's Sincerity" at the top of the masterpiece of traditional Chinese medicine "Essential Prescriptions for Emergencies", advocating that doctors must carry forward the humanitarianism of saving lives and healing the wounded. Spirit, "excellence" in professionalism, "sincerity" in moral character, this is the "great doctor" who has both ability and political integrity. This article, "The Sincerity of Great Doctors," was the first lesson that Ye Xin, the head nurse of the Ersha Emergency Department of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, learned when she was admitted to the hospital's "Health Training Team" in 1974 and officially started her medical career. Having worked as the head nurse of the emergency department at the Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine for 23 years, whether it was on-site first aid to a critically ill migrant worker who jumped from a building, taking the lead in caring for AIDS drug addicts, or risking his own life to rescue SARS patients, Ye Xin never "looked forward or backward, worrying about good or bad luck." ". She used her own life to write the "sincerity" of Chinese great medicine. In the early morning of March 24, 2003, Ye Xin, who unfortunately fell ill while rescuing SARS patients, died in the line of duty at the age of 46. In the past few days, reporters have visited Ye Xin’s family, friends, colleagues, patients, and the attending doctor (who was responsible for her rescue work before her death) to pursue the immortal spirit of this angel in white. We distribute medicine and soup to everyone every day. We must personally supervise everyone to take preventive medicines with boiled water, even the cleaners. Since February, the Ersha Branch of the Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine has been receiving cases of atypical pneumonia one after another. Since front-line medical staff at the Dade Road General Hospital had been infected by infectious diseases before, Nurse Ye Xin was particularly cautious. Every morning, she returns to the department half an hour early to prepare preventive medicines for everyone and distribute them to every doctor, nurse, and caregiver, including the cleaners. Some preventive drugs have strong side effects, and Ye Xin must personally supervise everyone to take them with boiled water. Before entering the ward, Ye Xin repeatedly emphasized various preventive measures: change into work clothes, shoes, and socks; wear masks, hats, and goggles; change isolation gowns before entering the isolation ward; wash hands and rinse mouth when leaving the isolation ward.
After she was intubated and put on a ventilator, she was injected with sedative drugs to enter a "hibernation" state to prevent her from falling off the ventilator due to agitation. When she passed away in the early morning of March 24, Ye Xin was very calm. On the same day, a patient in the ICU recovered and was discharged. He was the patient with intestinal obstruction combined with atypical pneumonia that Ye Xin risked his life to rescue on the evening of February 24. In order not to leave a shadow on his future life, no one told him when he was discharged from the hospital: the nurse who rescued him is now sleeping in the hospital where she dedicated half her life. Experts gathered together to do their best to rescue a famous doctor in his 70s who flew from Tianjin to Guangzhou the next day without saying a word. After Ye Xin became ill, Zhang Dejiang, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, entrusted the Secretary-General of the Provincial Party Committee to Cai Dongshi expressed condolences to her and her family and learned about her condition; Vice Governor Lei Yulan, accompanied by Huang Yebin, Deputy Secretary-General of the Provincial Government, and Huang Qingdao, Director of the Provincial Health Department, went to the hospital to inquire about the treatment situation. The Provincial Department of Health, the Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine provided technical, material, and equipment support to rescue her. The hospital has established a treatment team and invited the best experts in the country to participate in consultation and first aid. The leader of the treatment team was Ye Xin's former emergency department director Liu Xusheng. In order to rescue her in time, he simply moved to the hospital. Taking Ye Xin's medical records and information, he personally visited Zhongshan First Hospital, Zhongshan Second Hospital, Zhongshan Third Hospital, Provincial People's Hospital, and Nanfang Hospital to consult experts in the Department of Infectious Diseases, Hematology, and Nephrology. The deputy director of Guangzhou Urology Research Institute visited the ward for consultation many times. In the later stages of the illness, Ye Xin developed disseminated intravascular coagulation, systemic bleeding, and multiple organ failure of the heart, liver, and kidneys. The hospital invited an expert from Tianjin Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine who specializes in multiple organ failure. The 70-year-old man Without saying a word, the famous doctor flew to Guangzhou the next day and walked into Ye Xin's ward... She has "three protrusions" in 23 years of work. She is dedicated to her job and has had lumbar and cervical protrusions and outstanding achievements for many years. After joining the work in 1976, Due to her outstanding professional skills and good conduct, Ye Xin became the youngest head nurse in the hospital in 1980. In the emergency department, where every minute is a race against death, I have been working there for 23 years. In the past 23 years, she has had "three protrusions": lumbar protrusion, cervical vertebra protrusion, and outstanding achievements. She has been rated as "Excellent Communist Party Member", "Advanced Worker", "Excellent Nurse" and "Excellent Nurse" many times. She has won the third prize of the Guangdong Province Traditional Chinese Medicine Science and Technology Progress Award and has presented papers at many national and provincial academic exchange conferences. Her husband and son said that she was dedicated and conscientious and did not flinch when faced with SARS. She was just like thousands of medical staff, respectable and lovely. Colleagues and colleagues said that this was not the first time that she had left danger to herself and her health to her colleagues. We are heartbroken and convinced. Her spirit will inspire us to overcome all diseases.