The “Astronauts” on the Covid-19 frontline By Paula Martins, in News, Health · 29-01-2021 01:00:00 · 0 Comments
Many patients and few human resources - Health professionals are tired of this pandemic and the pressure it has put them under. However they never forget their role of providing the best care possible and highlight that hospitals remain safe places.
There are many reports of nurses who are finding themselves in a critical situation thanks to social media. These health care professionals complain of having facial wounds due to having to wear protective equipment for hours on end and of being unable to eat or go to the toilet for hours, but the main complaint always goes back to a basic lack of human resources.
finally, the covid nurse called to washington. she is the covid unit nurse who sings amazing grace between shifts. i once was lost but now am found nurse lori marie key at st. mary mercy hospital outside detroit. this video last march now seen by millions. and tonight, that nurse invited to sing at the memorial to honor the lives lost in this pandemic. amazing grace how sweet the sound
Frontline COVID nurse helps homeless in her community
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It s a place she says she knows well. 2020, in general, has been a tough year, and I just assumed that individuals who were already struggling, were hit even harder, said Hensinger, who had a difficult year in her own right.
She s a nurse in one of Jefferson Health s longest-standing COVID units, and still, she considers herself lucky. .I think that financially if we were able to help people who were struggling, we all pulled together and did what we could, she said.
Hensinger went to her nursing manager and said she wanted to do a donation drive for St. John s. She rallied her unit, her friends and family, and even her brother in the Air Force, who deployed in Germany, to help.