Megan Childs, a nurse on the Children’s Assessment Unit (CAU), moved her normal shifts and booked bank shifts when the unit was short staffed.
Megan Childs, is a nurse on the Children’s Assessment Unit (CAU), at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital.
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She said: “I’ve friends and colleagues in this trust and others who’ve had their departments closed to be redeployed to critical care and had family and friends who’ve contracted Covid, so I m volunteering for them, to do my bit in the pandemic and support and help wherever possible.
“If there’s one thing I ve learnt from this experience, it’s how quick we are to support each other and how even doing a quick set of observations for a team member can help ease their day just that little bit.
Military personnel are being deployed to help the overstretched Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital cope with the pressure of treating Covid patients.