-This is a battlefield,
and we've turned ourselves from nurses into soldiers.
We all took an oath,
and we all have a responsibility to our patients.
This is what we were born to do.
So even if it's a little scary,
this is something that has actually unified us.
Because we're all going through the same thing together.
Because of COVID-19, we have changed our visiting policy
to not allowing most visitors.
It was a very difficult decision to make,
but it's a decision that was necessary
to keep our patients safe.
-It's just unbelievable to see the devastation
that it's causing, and I think also as a nurse,
besides the chaos that's in the hospital
and what we need to do to see the patients
without their families here to know that they're alone.
During "normal times" in nursing,
we see the patients with the family around them.
In this situation, we can't be in there that often.
We go in when we have to go in
because we will be exposed, obviously,
and we do everything we need, but each time we go in,
it's to let them know, "Hey, I'm here.
You're not by yourself."
-Don't cry. I think everybody's afraid.
Life at the end of this.
Hopefully we're all make it.
Life at the end of this will be very, very different.
The way that we're looking at what we're doing
on a day-to-day basis,
the way that we're looking at our colleagues,
it's gonna be different.
There's gonna be so much lost, so much life lost.
I know it's eye-opening to be right there
to help your patients,
be there to help your patients, and be powerless.
One of the reasons that always attracted me to ID
is the fact that we cure people.
We make people better.
We give them medication, and they go home,
and they enjoy their life.
And now we are --
We have very little if anything to give.
It's -- It's heartbreaking.
-You have a lot of deaths.
You have a lot of people who are, you know,
not in the extremes of age who are getting sick.
And now is not the time to allow ourself to become overwhelmed
or to allow ourself to become,
you know, emotionally distraught.
I mean, it's the time for the physicians and the nurses
and everybody to be soldiers and carry it through to the end.
And this is what we share with, you know, all the residents,
the younger trainees,
and that's what needs to happen if we want to get through this
and save as many people as possible.
-Positivity can heal a person.
And I think that's really what nursing is about.
-Guide your footsteps.
Give them the wisdom they need to treat this virus.
-We have completely pulled together.
Every single morning, we pray in Islam,
we pray in Christian faith, we pray in the Jewish faith.
We include everybody,
and we pray every single morning as a team.
-Every member of this team into your hands.
In Jesus' name. -Amen.
-That's why we have a lot of windows.
I don't know if you noticed, in our unit,
we have a lot of windows.
If someone is sad, that will negatively impact their care.
I mean, this is pure, in-the-books evidence-based
practice for nursing.
But it someone's happy and they're positive
and they're joyful, they're gonna do better.
Many COVID patients pass away,
but you can't determine that others won't do well.
So even though we've seen deaths occur,
we've also seen people do better,
and that's what we have to hold onto,
is that hope that people will do better,
and we have to treat them with the expectation that they will.