COVID-19

March 26, 2020 My emotions are very similar to my original blog post. I have so many of them about so many issues related to this global pandemic but I will avoid politics and my economic fears (which could be an entirely different blog of equal or greater length), so I can focus on my personal experience, fears and feelings. As you have read in the original post, the cardiac cath lab is essentially closed with the exception of emergent “life or death” cases, and we are allocating staff to other parts of the hospital to assist where additional staff is needed (essentially everywhere). My last shift I was working in the overflow MICU/CCU area that was set up in a monitoring area of the hospital for patients that have just come out of major surgery to recover before stabilizing and going to a hospital floor. I will not get into details to protect the confidentiality of the patients and to not dive into the specific issues about the hospital I work at (for the hospitals protecti...

I have so much to say, yet I am unsure where to start. This journal/blog is meant to bring everyone in my life from my high school friends, to my friends from my nursing career, and my family members that wonder how I am doing here in New York City as a nurse during this crisis. I am hoping that this with help explain the severity of our immediate situation in the hospital to everyone reading. I will not have the time in the upcoming months to message and contact everyone that wants updates, so I am hoping this will serve as a central place where people can find out. The past 72 hours have been me updating my friends, close family, and my concerned nurse family that mean the absolute world to me, and I need some time to unwind and separate myself from the hospital situation on my time off. To give some background I’ve been a RN for 4.5 years now. I started in a busy and crowded emergency dept before I made the switch to interventional cardiology. For those who do not know what in...