I have always found that if you can just get your patient to laugh, no matter what happens, you'll both have a good shift. And when someone does die, or is dying, many times I will ask the family to tell me something funny about the patient. Being able to smile at a time like that seems somehow to ease the burden somewhat.
I enjoyed the video, Loretta. I am jealous of your DIL. I would LOVE to work at Barnes Jewish, because Dr. Tom Ahrens, THE expert on hemodynamic monitoring, and one of the SMARTEST, BEST nurse educators in the world is there. He is awesome. I go to every single class or conference I can of his. In fact, I have toyed with having some buttons printed up that say "Tom Ahrens is a god!" He is the reason I have "Don Not Resuscitate=NO CPR" tattooed on my Left Breast. (For real)