[NRSKarenRN]

From:
Janine M. Mazabob: When It Rains, It Pours. The Internet Journal of Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine. 2002. Volume 6 Number 1.


When a storm hits and floods the largest Medical center in the world you put in to play all of your disaster plans.

Memorial Hermann hospital is one of 2 level I trauma centers in Houston. As the rain fell I was watching the devastation on the television. I knew that I had to do what ever it took to get to the hospital...
http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php...ol5n1/rain.xml

[Cherybaby]

It's an amazing story, and shows the courage and bravery, not to mention the nobility in what we do for a living. When the four hurricanes came and devastated my area...my husband and I made the three hour trip over to Fort Myers. He is a computer geek...so while his job couldn't help much, his basic brawn was enough to help with the clean up. Me, I went over to the hospital...and helped with wound care and basic nursing and support. It was a hard time for everyone...and that was only the FIRST storm. The subsequent ones ruined so many lives. (Including putting a skylight into my bedroom where I simply didn't want to! *L*) But I was grateful for the opportunity to be able to help, to hold a hand, to just be present...because these people needed empathy in the worst way.

Thank you for sharing that article. The pictures were incredible...especially the joy on the faces of the nurses as the last patient was evacuated.

[presC.]

such an inspiring story, way to go nurses! and other med.team
very efficient. good job.

cheers!

[Jessy_RN]

[quote=NRSKarenRN]When a storm hits and floods the largest Medical center in the world you put in to play all of your disaster plans.

Memorial Hermann hospital is one of 2 level I trauma centers in Houston. As the rain fell I was watching the devastation on the television. I knew that I had to do what ever it took to get to the hospital...
http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php...ol5n1/rain.xml



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