Bearing witness to a pandemic BUPA | SANITAS
When the patients went home, we celebrated with music and clapping covadonga medrano Nurse Virgen del Mar Hospital
I have worked for ten years in the Intensive Care Unit. I love this work and I think it’s the best. I have never found it hard to work under the pressure of it. There came a point where I wanted a bit of a change of direction and I changed to x-ray. Now I work in outpatient consultations. As well as working in the hospital, I also work at a care home. I was really afraid of catching coronavirus. I would go in with my masks and gear until one day they said: Cova! You need to move from outpatient consultations to work in intensive care, because that’s what you know best and your colleagues need you. I remember that day really well, because it all happened at lightning speed, my God! People were dying… I had worked before as a nurse in intensive care, and there had been people who went into cardiac arrest, strokes, hard stuff, but it wasn’t an everyday occurance. In ten years, I had never seen anything like those worst days. Every day there were people whose hearts stopped, intubations and watching people die. I think that was the hardest thing I ever went through.
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