Happy Emergency Nurses Day to the nurses that provide urgent care to SickKids patients

Posted on October 12, 2022

Summary:

Meet Anjelica, a Clinical Support Nurse who works in the Emergency Department at SickKids.

Nurse Anjelica Guytingco stands in front of a red sign that reads "emergency" in white font, wearing a mask and a SickKids lanyard.

Anjelica Guytingco, Clinical Support Nurse

Meet Anjelica Guytingco, a Clinical Support Nurse who works in the Emergency Department at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids).

In this fast-paced environment where every day is completely different, Guytingco says the team’s ability to collaborate despite the many moving parts is what makes her job so rewarding.

“The teamwork of the Emergency Department at SickKids is something I have never experienced before,” Guytingco says.

To honour Emergency Nurses Day (Oct. 12), we celebrate Guytingco and the many other incredible nurses who make up SickKids’ emergency nursing team.

To Guytingco, her team in the Emergency Department is an unwavering support system, where everyone looks out for each other through the good days and the toughest days. “We encounter a lot of patients’ worst days of their life and parents’ worst days of their life,” she says. “I'm blessed that the people I work with are super supportive.”

Though the Emergency Department sees a lot of trauma in their day-to-day, Guytingco says she always gives 110 per cent to her patients — whether she’s seeing one patient or five, a newborn just a few hours old or a teenager about to turn 18.

“What makes me come back to work every day is that feeling that I have done something positive and that I have made an impact on someone's life,” Guytingco says.

When she first graduated from nursing school, Guytingco had no idea about the variety of jobs that were available in her field. At SickKids, she has learned there are so many unique roles and opportunities to grow as a nurse and to explore and find yourself. “There are so many disciplines that you encounter every day,” she says.

Join our awesome nursing team and find yourself: www.sickkids.ca/nursing

[Music]

[SickKids logo appears on a white background]

[Red and blue lights flash over an ambulance]

Anjelica Guytingco, Clinical Support Nurse: It’s the unknown.

[Two people wearing navy blue scrubs, yellow protective gowns, surgical gloves and surgical caps push a stretcher through the doors to the emergency department (ED)]

Guytingco: Like, we're always kind of treading that water of, like, borderline danger.

[Guytingco pulls her arms through a yellow protective gown]

Guytingco: Because we don't know what's coming.

[Guytingco walks down a hallway]

Guytingco: And I think that's the amazing thing about the emerge department is that it's always different.

[Wearing blue surgical gloves, Guytingco presses buttons on a touch-screen monitor using her finger]

[Guytingco and a colleague look at a screen together]

Guytingco: We can see anyone from, you know, brand new, you know, fresh out of the womb to their 18th birthday.

[The camera shows a hallway with numbered hospital rooms, with the doorway to room No. 9 in focus]

[The camera focuses on a stethoscope around a SickKids’ employee’s neck]

Guytingco: And the life span is amazing to me.

[The camera pans over the red Emergency sign over the ED, and lands on Guytingco, who is standing below the sign, wearing a mask]

Guytingco: Hi, my name is Anjelica. My pronouns are she/her. I'm a registered nurse in the emergency department at SickKids.

[Guytingco is sitting in a chair in an office]

Text on screen: Anjelica Guytingco, Clinical Support Nurse, ED, SickKids

Guytingco: Straight out of nursing school, I went to this really small hospital, which taught me many, many great things and gave me a great foundation to come here.

[Guytingco and a colleague stand together at a computer in the ED]

Guytingco: I had no idea what type of jobs are out there, what type of nursing leader roles, what type of even other nursing roles that there are because I came from such a small centre.

[A group of SickKids employees wearing scrubs and masks stand around a human patient simulator lying on a hospital bed]

Guytingco: The teamwork of the emergency department at SickKids is something I have never experienced before. There are so many disciplines that you encounter every day, from child life to social work.

[A variety of medications are displayed on a table]

Guytingco: To our clinical externs, to our flow support, to our phlebotomists.

[Guytingco types on a laptop keyboard]

Guytingco: Every single one of those people have a very important role, and we could not do our jobs as nurses without them.

[A SickKids staff member counts their fingers, while two other employees look on]

Guytingco: We as a group go through great times together.

[A staff member touches the head of a human patient simulator, which is lying on a hospital bed wearing a neck brace and a respirator]

Guytingco: And we as a group go through terrible times together.

[A sliding automatic door closes on the group of SickKids staff in an emergency room]

Guytingco: We encounter a lot of trauma. We encounter a lot of patients’ worst days of their life and parents’ worst days of their life.

[The SickKids employees interact with the human patient simulator]

Guytingco: And it's a lot of emotional burden to take on. And we cannot get through these times without having a good support system. And I am thankful and I'm blessed that the people I work with are super supportive of me and everyone else they work with.

[Guytingco stands in a hospital hallway wearing a mask]

Guytingco: What makes me come back to work every day is that feeling that I have done something positive and that I have made an impact on someone's life.

[Guytingco walks through a sliding door wearing a yellow protective gown and blue surgical gloves]

[Guytingco interacts with a hospital machine]

Guytingco: Whether it's one patient or five patients, I go home at the end of the day knowing that I gave 110 per cent to my patients.

[Guytingco takes off the yellow gown]

[Guytingco walks out of the ED as the camera pans to the red Emergency sign]

Guytingco: And that I have positively impacted their day.

[Music]

[SickKids logo appears on a white background]

[End of video]