An Orlando nurse at a Broadway show in New York helps save a man having a medical emergency. Nicole Horochowski was in the audience with her cousin and twin sister watching the Broadway musical “Funny Girl” starring Lea Michele when she saw another patron struggling trying to carry a man up the aisle. The two men made it a few more feet before collapsing and Nicole realized that the man needed help.
With only a few more minutes left in the show, Nicole, who is an ICU nurse with Advent Health in Orlando, turns her attention to the man in distress. While trying to be discreet, she quietly asks the man a few questions. She later says she thinks he may have been having a stroke. The man carrying him identifies himself as the patient’s husband of 27 years and he tells Nicole he is afraid of losing him.
During this time, another patron calls 911 and theater staff bring Nicole medical supplies. A few minutes later, the man is helped out of the theater into a waiting ambulance. Nicole doesn’t know what happened to the man after that, but she is glad to have been there to help even if she did miss a few minutes of the show. "That's what happens when you take your nurse pledge,” she says. “You are always a nurse. On the clock, off the clock, Christmas Fay, or any other random day of the year. You are always a nurse."
Source: WESH
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