'The Nurses Are Speaking. We Need to Listen.' HealthyWomen CEO and maternal-fetal nurse BBCRN talks about what we need to do to support nurses now in the midst of this pandemic.
Health-care workers know they are at risk when they show up at work. I admit when I walked through the doors of my hospital last week, I worried about exposing myself to the virus, or worse, exposing my own family when I returned home. I also know I'm among the lucky: As a maternal-fetal nurse, my own risk of exposure is lower than the risks faced by my colleagues who work in the emergency room or intensive-care units.
Yet this is what it means to be a nurse: We show up. Countless other health-care workers are making tremendous sacrifices as parents and partners, practicing social distancing with their own families. These nurses have lessons to offer the rest of us., is preparing for the day she feels the risk of infection is so high that she must distance herself from her family.
"I'll get to talk to my husband and kids from a safe distance, but I won't get to touch anyone I love. I'm not a hugger, but I anticipate that the next few weeks are likely to bring days where I could really use a hug. I won't be able to have one. It's the only way I can protect them.” After a grueling day at the hospital, she won't be able to rest right away. She'll first need to go through painstaking efforts to disinfect her clothes and herself. And then she'll sleep in a room no one else is allowed to enter. Her ask? Don't complain about being home; enjoy the hugs.
These pleas aren't all though. Nurses are organizing through their professional associations to advocate for government action.jointly authored with the American Medical Association and American Hospital Association, that urges President Dondal Trump to use federal government powers to increase production of PPE and other medical equipment such as ventilators.
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