but seriously, battle fatigue and crisis burnout is real. Ask any caregiver of an elderly person. The gal in this story is a new RN - that the hospitals are throwing sink or swim into ICU.
One gal in our nursing class dropped the day after she lost a patient first year. Couldn't handle death - nothing like her dream of being a small town school nurse to little kiddies. Death in waves with machines barking, that can get a little overwhelming and harder to box up even for senior nurses. Crisis fatigue affects judgement and performance and reduces immunity. Whether her story is real or a composite is up for discussion sure, but the emotions she describes are very real and have been felt by others. My two cents anyway
If only safe, effective EARLY treatments had been available, to all.
Many of these (perhaps made up) patients wouldn’t even be in the hospital, to begin with.
This story has Big Pharma written all over it.
Thanks for sharing your personal accounts. I have nurse friends who would agree, under actual circumstances.
Let one of the armchair experts here take just one shift in a covid ICU. They wouldn’t last one hour let alone 12.
Hooo, golly, can I relate. First for my Dad, then my Mom. And I'm a (supposedly) tough, exceptionally stable ol' bastard. Well, kinda old, anyway. ;-)