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COVID in Alabama: For health care workers, battling coronavirus took a toll
Updated Mar 08, 2021;
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The COVID-19 pandemic has tested health care workers like few others.
For the past year, Alabama’s healers have faced a crucible of dying patients, long shifts, limited equipment, makeshift ICUs, and overrun vaccination sites. All of that while crowds won’t wear a mask, some still calling the virus a hoax, and armchair experts convinced they’ve figured out more than the entire medical scientific community.
Then, when the day’s dying efforts are done, many return home to children struggling with virtual school, partners who carry them through trying times and extended families they haven’t seen in months, always worried that they could be spreading the same virus they work so hard to fight.
Nurse Brooke Olson: We’ll come through COVID with ‘new strength and resiliency’
Updated Mar 08, 2021;
Posted Mar 08, 2021
Brooke Olson, a nurse with responsibilities in staff development at USA Health Children s & Women s Hospital.Courtesy of USA Health
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The pandemic meant a lot of changes for Brooke Olson, a registered nurse at USA Health Children’s & Women’s Hospital in Mobile.
At home, it meant navigating virtual learning with her three children. At work, it meant helping community and staff transition to a virtual platform.
“Of all the emotions experienced during the pandemic, most of all I feel proud,” she said. “Proud to watch my coworkers and community pull together to come up with new ideas to navigate the challenges the pandemic has brought on. I’ve seen nurse leaders pray over their staff, community praying over local hospitals during lights on Mobile, as well as nurses stepping out of their comfort zones to help where needed.