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‘It didn’t have to be like this’: ICU nurse describes toll of treating COVID-19 patients
The Boston Globe ^ | 04 Aug 2021 | Amanda Kaufman

Posted on 08/06/2021 8:40:29 PM PDT by blueplum

A woman who says she began her career as an intensive care unit nurse months after the COVID-19 pandemic began is speaking out about the toll of learning the job while being inundated with severely sick patients as hospital beds now fill up again....

Kathryn Ivey, who reportedly works in a Nashville, Tenn., hospital, posted a powerful Twitter thread this week describing how her feelings of helplessness in earlier stages of the pandemic have transitioned to anger...

... Ivey’s reflections offer a glimpse into the grief being shouldered by health care workers on the front lines....

“Walking through the much smaller covid unit was like walking through a graveyard,” Ivey wrote.

But now, “it is so much worse, this time,” Ivey continued. “We all have so much less to give. We are still bearing the fresh and heavy grief of the last year and trying to find somewhere to put all this anger. But the patients don’t stop coming. And the anger doesn’t stop coming.”

Ivey described feeling defeated at the same time, like “Nothing we do makes a difference.”

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


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walk for just a moment in a newly graduated RN's shoes.

It's a hard life lesson to accept that some things you can fix and some things you just can't. Especially when that mental box of can't fix grows so much larger than the mental box of good to go.

1 posted on 08/06/2021 8:40:29 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

Real life is a bitch for newly minted RN’s
Usually don’t work in ICU


2 posted on 08/06/2021 8:43:30 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: blueplum

She may be suffering from extreme cognitive dissonance. For reasons many here will know inherently.


3 posted on 08/06/2021 8:43:39 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: blueplum
Ivey described feeling defeated at the same time, like “Nothing we do makes a difference.”

Certainly nothing you do makes a difference, when the quacks are actively sabotaging inexpensive therapeutics in order to enrich billionaires and help the murderous pols control the peasants.

4 posted on 08/06/2021 8:49:07 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: one guy in new jersey

Tell her to get Ivermectin and anti-body transfusions and she’ll feel better about her job again.

Doing nothing for patients and watching them get worse isn’t good for anyone but if you’re a rookie, well, figure it out.


5 posted on 08/06/2021 8:50:21 PM PDT by romanesq (TRUSTY THE PLAN! ChiCom Joe is the Plan? Que magnificent! 👹)
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To: kiryandil

The pressure of not admitting or revealing what you know to be true can be devastating.


6 posted on 08/06/2021 8:51:30 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: blueplum

It didn’t have to be like this???!!!😩😩😩😱😱

You’re on a roll.


7 posted on 08/06/2021 8:52:09 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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To: blueplum
“Nothing we do makes a difference.”
Then quit.
8 posted on 08/06/2021 8:54:01 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: one guy in new jersey
I went to Scott Adams' School of Cognitive Dissonance.

You're exactly correct.   winking face

9 posted on 08/06/2021 8:55:20 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: romanesq

She like most if not almost all in that field has surely been medicating herself with one or another widely known COVID-19-effective therapeutic like HCQ or Ivermectin or both for almost as long as the recent unpleasantness has been underway. Let any of them known to have at least half a brain try to deny it. They would fool nobody with 1/4 of a brain.


10 posted on 08/06/2021 8:57:28 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: blueplum
(from the article):" Kathryn Ivey, who reportedly works in a Nashville, Tenn., hospital, posted a powerful Twitter thread this week
describing how her feelings of helplessness in earlier stages of the pandemic have transitioned to anger."

Nurse Ratchett,.. please pick up the courtesy phone at the customer service desk !
She must be a real pleasure to be around with that attitude and bedside manner.
Time to get over yourself, .. and due your duty !
That's what you signed up for, and get paid to do

11 posted on 08/06/2021 8:57:48 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Jane Long; blueplum

“No, I’m sorry. My quack supervisor-doctor says you can’t have the benign therapeutic that’s cheaper than a bottle of Walmart Oak Leaf ‘because reasons’.”


12 posted on 08/06/2021 8:58:13 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: blueplum

“Nothing we do makes a difference.”


Yeah, well....welcome to real life.


13 posted on 08/06/2021 9:04:20 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: blueplum

Nurses complaining that they aren’t taken seriously? Wonder why …

14 posted on 08/06/2021 9:05:03 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: blueplum

Time for some new choreographed TikTok dance displays from the fatigued medical community


15 posted on 08/06/2021 9:06:03 PM PDT by Mozzafiato
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"walk for just a moment in a newly graduated RN's shoes. It's a hard life lesson to accept that some things you can fix and some things you just can't. Especially when that mental box of can't fix grows so much larger than the mental box of good to go. "

One thing you can fix is stop making up outright lies. This is PURE PROPAGANDA.

Why were these people in the ICU admitted? What covid specific treatments were being given to these patients in order to try to save their lives? What medications were given?

They never want to answer those questions because it would expose stories like this for the evil commie propaganda that it is.

16 posted on 08/06/2021 9:09:35 PM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: markman46

“Real life is a bitch for newly minted RN’s
Usually don’t work in ICU”

My GF is an RN for many, many years. She doesnt bitch like little Karen aka Kathryn. The leftard scare megaphone called Boston Globe just found one spineless RN on Twitter and ran with it.


17 posted on 08/06/2021 9:11:14 PM PDT by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: blueplum

this sh*t again. saw this kind of crap a lot a year ago. people that chose the medical profession are pissed off because they have to practice medicine.


18 posted on 08/06/2021 9:12:26 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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> “It didn’t have to be like this.”

Talk to Fauci about his gain of function research. Don’t blame those who are skeptical of the exact people who caused the pandemic.


19 posted on 08/06/2021 9:12:38 PM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (Socialism requires slavery.)
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To: max americana
I've seen this same story multiple places over the past week or so. You know..."ICU (or ER) nurse is weepy because she's putting on a ventilator unvaxxed but now repenatant covid patients crying for the shot. Alas, through the tears she says 'I'm sorry...it's too late' and then the family happens to be right there to tell the reporter that they've taken to social media, to change the minds of the unvaxxed."

Why, it's almost like there is a concerted effort to run propaganda featuring nurses spouting talking points.

20 posted on 08/06/2021 9:18:22 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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