Tired Nurse here... prayers requested

MarciKS said:
How ya holdin up there @CinnamonSugar ? Been pretty tired here. Hoping by the end of the month to have more help come in and get them trained up so I can return to the cafeteria FT this time. My days off have been few and very spread out on the schedule. We're getting about 50 new cases a day. I think we're housing 15 at the moment. Possibly more. I know some were waiting in the ER for a room to open up as we're still short on nurses. One floor lost 18 nurses all at once. Another floor reported losing 20 nurses all at once. They just got burned out and quit. Take care of yourself on your days off. 🤗
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Doing ok, thanks @MarciKS I had big plans for a celebration of a personal anniversary in about a week but that will have to be deferred for now. However, I'm getting creative with alternative options for fun.

Bless you as you work behind the scenes in the hospital... You are appreciated, even if we don't say it enough!!
 

About ten years ago I spent a week in the hospital after a motorcycle accident. Finally, one of the doctors came in the room with some others and announced that all was well and I was free to go home and recuperate. I was so thrilled and full of pain killers that I blurted out "Good job everyone". Did their faces light up! I made a visit to the same hospital a few months later to visit someone who was a patient, and what I had blurted out was placed on a sign on the bulletin board. Clearly it was appreciated. Nurses and all hospital staff need more of that.
 
Chet said:
About ten years ago I spent a week in the hospital after a motorcycle accident. Finally, one of the doctors came in the room with some others and announced that all was well and I was free to go home and recuperate. I was so thrilled and full of pain killers that I blurted out "Good job everyone". Did their faces light up! I made a visit to the same hospital a few months later to visit someone who was a patient, and what I had blurted out was placed on a sign on the bulletin board. Clearly it was appreciated. Nurses and all hospital staff need more of that.
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That's because we don't hear it often.
 
Thank you Nurses and all other medical folks for the work you do during this time of Covid. I don't know how you summon up the bravery it must take to go into a Covid Unit and risk your life on a daily basis.
 
We are once again having full hospitals and adult and pediatric ICUs here, too. Commentators are saying that it isn't necessarily that there aren't physical beds, but sometimes there is not enough staff to cover them, which amounts to the same thing.

I can't imagine how hospital staff have the courage and stamina to face this pandemic head-on day after day after day after day.
 
Its unreal around here... and not just Covid.... Our Hospital ER (the only hospital in the county) has stopped taking patients coming by Ambulance... called going on diversion. We are on day 5 now of taking everyone else ware...
This is the ONLY TIME in my 36 years here its happened.
retirement cant get here fast enough...
 
I admire, respect and thank all of our hard working and caring front line workers who have personally sacrificed more than ever to help others during this worldwide deadly pandemic. đź’™

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Butterfly said:
We are once again having full hospitals and adult and pediatric ICUs here, too. Commentators are saying that it isn't necessarily that there aren't physical beds, but sometimes there is not enough staff to cover them, which amounts to the same thing.

I can't imagine how hospital staff have the courage and stamina to face this pandemic head-on day after day after day after day.
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@J-Kat and @Butterfly …. In the short term, you make sure you are as protected as possible and when you enter the patient’s room or home, you focus on their needs. But yeah, the doffing and donning of and working in full PPE does get *really* old. We’ve lost staff at our hospital from burn-out
 
You first posted this thread Aug. 8 and now it the 19th. Have things worsened or improved at the hospital? Hopefully less cases. I'll keep you in my prayers. If you think of anything specific, be sure to let us know.
 
Lara said:
You first posted this thread Aug. 8 and now it the 19th. Have things worsened or improved at the hospital? Hopefully less cases. I'll keep you in my prayers. If you think of anything specific, be sure to let us know.
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Thanks @Lara things are still bad as far as I know. Since I am mainly a home-visiting nurse, I don’t have daily stats on hospital numbers.
 
CinnamonSugar said:
@J-Kat and @Butterfly …. In the short term, you make sure you are as protected as possible and when you enter the patient’s room or home, you focus on their needs. But yeah, the doffing and donning of and working in full PPE does get *really* old. We’ve lost staff at our hospital from burn-out
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We have lost staff here for the same reason. We've lost around 40 nurses. And around 20 in food service. And there are still some of us who are pondering quitting.
 
Out of years of working in hospitals and nursing homes this is the worst thing I've ever seen in my nearly 40 yr long career. I think what bothers me more than anything is witnessing our own personnel not following the safety guidelines put in place. We are gaining more Covid patients every day. We are in a state of high transmission. If things keep on the way they're going we may very well end up with a hospital full of nothing but Covid patients. I just hate to see what's coming for us. I'm sure feel the same way Cinnamon.
 

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