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Amanda Frikker has such a positive outlook on life, she can even find something good about a pandemic.
Several things actually. As a charge nurse in the surgical intensive care unit of Mary Washington Hospital, she sees her main goal as making sure the unit runs smoothly and âeveryone has the best day they can.â She deals with people recovering after traumas, open-heart or brain surgeries and even gunshot wounds, not virus cases.
ICU nurse Amanda Frikker at Mary Washington Healthcare
But the challenges of COVID-19 have touched everyone around her, and during a meeting last fall with other charge nurses, she noticed a high level of stressâand tears.