“The new guidelines are that every student or anyone who walks into the building must get screened,” he said. These regulations often make students like Kim feel better entering the school facility when necessary. Schools such as Resurrection University have been putting up stricter guidelines for students in order to ensure health and safety amongst everyone. Working at the hospitals too, there are COVID-19 patients all the time.” “A lot of people are still not keeping safe and not wearing their masks so all we gotta do is that we’re keeping ourselves safe. “I worry about going out all the time because of this pandemic,” Kim said. Joophil Kim who is a nursing student at Resurrection University, said he worries because he interns in hospitals for his nursing program. Nicolette Arjona, Katherine Arjona’s niece, is a student nurse at Chamberlain University and said she doesn't want to return to campus for classes “not just because I’m more of a visual learner, but it’s different when you’re physically there learning procedures instead of watching them through the camera Webex.” With all classes transferred onto an online platform, many student nurses worried about their academics and their own personal performance with e-learning. Students who were working their way up to nursing also experienced difficulties due to the virus. Over time as cases grew so did the need for nurses to be moved to COVID-19 related cases.Īdditionally, even student nurses were impacted by the coronavirus. The nurses that were displaced from their usual duties and tasks and placed into floors that specialized with patients of COVID-19 feared exposure to the virus. Many nurses became exposed to the virus causing them to quarantine which in effect made other nurses displaced from their units to be sent to the COVID-19 floor. So there was a fight between the use of simple masks versus N-95. “They said oh it’s just a droplet precaution. “At first they said it’s not airborne,” Arjona said. In terms of symptoms of the virus and understanding how it spread officials had no idea that the virus was airborne at the beginning of the pandemic putting many nurses in danger as they assisted patients. The professionals were still learning about COVID-19 just as everyone else was during the spring season. “We had to reuse our N95 masks for a few days up to a few weeks until we got more proper PPE.” “At the time, we had a shortage of PPE so people had to sort of save their N95 masks,” she said. It’s so sad.”Īshley Gualberto, a registered nurse in labor and delivery at Northshore Highland Park, said there was a shortage of proper masks at her workplace. A total of 4 nurses that had been exposed to it passed from it.
“Unfortunately, he passed away due to it.
“One nurse had caught it and had to go home and she ended up passing it to her husband,” she said. She also talked about the many difficulties that nurses faced at the beginning of the pandemic such as mask shortages and the fear of transferring the virus from work to loved ones. We had to learn about it all in one day,” she said.
“It felt like going to school all over again.
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Many drastic changes were made to adapt to handling the virus such as quick training on how to treat and stay protected from passing the virus on. Katherine Arjona, a nurse working at the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System, said while cases were rising, beds were getting filled on the hospital’s COVID-19 floor.Īrjona said the COVID-19 unit grew from the combination of three entirely separate units of the hospital as the virus spread. Amidst the beginning of the pandemic when COVID-19 cases were on the rise chaos was brought to Chicago hospitals. With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic fluctuating with cases nurses continue to fight on the frontlines risking their safety and health for the community.ĬOVID-19 continues to impact nurses and the normalcy of their workplace. The personal protective equipment nurses wear during a work shift. (Courtesy photo) In the Eyes of a Nurse: The COVID-19 Pandemicīy Yasmin Mam and Jennifer Castaneda | Posted: Thursday, Dec.
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