and bloody. i didn t really know what burnout meant as a nurse until i hit covid. reporter: melissa davis has worked in the icu for 17 years. it s never been this bad. i have seen a turnover in nurses i never would have thought would have turned over because they can t take it no more. reporter: do you feel you re close to a breaking point? i think we already broke. reporter: burnout, stress, grueling hours. there are multiple reasons career nurses are choosing to leave. we ve been seeing it probably hit a peak recently. we have over 10 nursing vacancies open right now. reporter: when they do, that experience is also lost. it takes years of training to get to the point where you can actually take care of a covid patient. this is nothing like we ve seen before. reporter: the head of singing river hospital system is urging the state to use some of its
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Coast health system celebrates National Hospital Week with optimism, some concerns Singing River Hospital System employees dance Friday during their Pascagoula hospital s celebration of Hospital Week. (Source: John Fitzhugh) By John Fitzhugh | May 14, 2021 at 8:52 PM CDT - Updated May 14 at 8:52 PM
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (WLOX) - Registered Nurse Kelly Cumbest like almost every health care worker who faced the pandemic saw more death in the past year than in his entire career.
So a celebration like National Hospital Week was a welcome opportunity to breathe a sigh of relief.
After more than a year of coping with the stress of the pandemic, Singing River Hospital System is enjoying the week-long celebration.