![]() We do our best to calm fears, comfort and connect while providing the best care we can in their most vulnerable moments. The true realization you may not get better and facing your own mortality. The need to use all your energy just to breathe. The breathlessness, pain, fear, loneliness, isolation, anxiety, hopelessness, and sadness. Now PLEASE IMAGINE BEING THE COVID ICU PATIENT. Imagine being the nurse or doctor holding that same patient's hand and stroking their head weeks later while their ventilator is removed because they haven't improved and their family then says goodbyes and I love yous over FaceTime while they take their last breath. Calling or FaceTiming their family so they can say I love yous and encouraging words while in our heads we know for some patients this is the last phone call they will have with each other. Imagine being the nurse and doctor telling a patient we need to put them on the ventilator because we have exhausted all other measures. Imagine being the nurse crying with your patient when they realize that everything we're doing to help them STILL may not be enough and death is a real possibility. Imagine watching a patient suffocating thru a door while scrambling to get your ppe on because they inadvertently removed the mask they desperately need to breathe but you still need to protect yourself first. Now imagine doing that on repeat for 8 months and counting. The inability to save a patient despite doing everything you can is mentally exhausting. In this moment, I felt defeated because I already knew what the outcome would be even though it hadn't happened yet. Below is me after spending 5 hours inside a Covid positive ICU room working to save a patient. No one wants to believe this is happening in their own backyard but it is and it isn't pretty. I am begging you! Anyone that has asked me how things are going, I have given them my unfiltered Covid ICU nurse experience. Stop politicizing this virus, it's a public health crisis If you are taking this pandemic seriously, doing the best you can to be safe and protect others, THANK YOU. Stop believing that doctors are profiting from this pandemic, they aren't. Stop ignoring that healthcare workers are also getting sick themselves, it's happening. ![]() Stop believing that all frontline healthcare workers are properly protected with PPE, many across the country STILL are not. Stop thinking if they make makeshift areas to house more patients there will be properly trained staff to care for them, there may not be. Stop believing hospitals aren't being overrun because of the massive influx of Covid patients at this moment, they are. ![]() Stop being confident that if you get sick from anything, the resources to save you will be readily available, that may not be in this stage of the pandemic. Stop thinking that only unhealthy people with preexisting medical conditions or elderly people are the ones dying, they aren't the only ones. Stop kidding yourself that this isn't going to affect you or someone you love or know, it will. Stop ignoring science based recommendations of masking, social distancing, hand hygiene, and not gathering in large crowds, they work. Stop saying healthcare workers signed up for this, we didn't. Stop telling me the survival rate so it's not a big deal, it is a big deal. Stop thinking this is just like the flu, it isn't. Nurse Carol Williams shared a photo of herself on Facebook after her shift at Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora with a powerful message that has since gone viral: (WLS) - The latest COVID-19 surge has a suburban front line worker pleading with people to take the virus seriously. The Heart and Vascular Institute is an accredited Chest Pain Center for the care of patients with acute coronary from the Society of Chest Pain Centers.Įmergency Services is a designated Level II Trauma Center that serves nearly 70,000 patients annually.Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin read a local nurse's plea to take COVID-19 seriously during this week's council meeting, bringing some to tears.ĪURORA, Ill. Rush Copley Neuroscience Services provides specialized care to the greater Fox Valley area. The Cancer Care Center has been designated as a Comprehensive Community Cancer Center by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer. It is part of the Rush University System for Health, which includes Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and Rush Oak Park Hospital. It is named after Ira Clifton Copley, who donated over $2 million for the original hospital. Rush Copley Medical Center in Aurora, Illinois, is a 210-bed hospital in the greater Fox Valley area. ( August 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources.
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