on volunteer and donate to find ways to donate to specific states in need of help. you can also visit redcross.org and click on donate funds to give to any red cross chapter. hurricane sandy has also caused a blood shortage because of blood drive cancelations. to find out where you can donate blood, visit redcrossblood.org. meanwhile, the storm has forced two major new york city hospitals to evacuate. backup generators failed at bellevue hospital and nyu langone medical center. hundreds of patients had to evacuate including patients in critical condition and 20 babies from the intensive care unit. doctors described the evacuations as labor intensive and extremely difficult. joining me tonight is a hero, a nurse. laurie, one of the hero nurses who helped evacuate premature and sick babies when nyu s
power during hurricane sandy. did you kind of great to have you with us tonight. congratulations on what you did. you ve done your profession and your life proud in many, many ways. when this was all unfolding, did you have a sense that it was going to get as bad as it did. we initially didn t. we had made many preparations to have our nursing staff as well as physicians on site in order to facility the most safe care, but we didn t have any idea the extent that the damage would cause. what did you go through, lori? what happened? i work on a unit that take care of babies that have heart disease or had heart surgery. we had seven babies who were critical patients who were not able to be removed from the hospital. did you think at any time that maybe some of them aren t going to make it? there was never a point that i thought that. we were all very nervous and concerned for the safety of our patients, but i really am so proud of my nyu co-workers, the nurses, nurse practitio
ways to donate to specific states in need of help. you can also visit redcross.org and click on donate funds to give to any red cross chapter. hurricane sandy has also caused a blood shortage because of blood drive cancelations. to find out where you can donate blood, visit redcrossblood.org. meanwhile, the storm has forced two major new york city hospitals to evacuate. backup generators failed at bellevue hospital and nyu langone medical center. hundreds of patients had to evacuate including patients in critical condition and 20 babies from the intensive care unit. doctors described the evacuations as labor intensive and extremely difficult. joining me tonight is a hero, a nurse. lori touchette, one of the hero nurses who helped evacuate premature and sick babies when nyu s langone hospital lost
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power that the babies would be safely taken care of. so we were just really focused on getting the patients safe in the hospital then once we learned we were evacuating getting the patients out safely. how about the patients that weren t babies that were moved? how nervous were they? what were they saying? how were they handling it? i was really impressed not only by the nyu staff but the nyu patients. these were all patients we made the determination they were sick enough they needed to remain in the hospital. these patients were being evacuated in med sleds which is a canoe you put the patient into and strap them in. as i was walking up and down the stairs the patients were smiling at me and thanking me. people came together and made the patients comfortable and were carrying the patients down the stairs. kind of renews your faith in the human spirit, doesn t it? i was beyond impressed with all of my co-workers. it was a night that i felt just so very proud of nursing as well