IcuRN359

I’m no expert either, but I just made one for everyone! https://www.facebook.com/groups/463331125806321/?ref=sharehttps://www.facebook.com/groups/463331125806321/?ref=share&exp=93fa

I took mine at Geneva College online a few months ago. I’ll link the class. It’s graduate level and only $700, self-paced and the instructor was great! https://portagelearning.com/courses/mathematics/cnsl503

I just received my acceptance literally 5 minutes ago!! I’m assuming they’re sending them out in a big wave!

Hi everyone! I'm a new graduate nurse that has been in the ICU since April. I'm experiencing alot of stress related to COVID. We're in our 2nd wave of COVID now and the amount of death I'm seeing is almost too much for me at this point. We are coding people everyday. On Thanksgiving, we had 4 COVID patients code during just my shift. Not to mention my hospital is also not allowing visitors anymore so all the communication with family is via the phone. I understand providing emotional support to the family and patient is part of my job, but I am just so overwhelmed with how powerless I feel in this situation. I love the ICU population in general and I love the critical nature of the care, the critical thinking, the independence, everything, but I do not know how to deal with this much death and suffering. I know this is largely due to the pandemic and in the normal ICU environment, deaths are not quite this frequent, but with no end to this pandemic in sight, I don't know how much longer I can deal with this. Nurses on my unit are burnt out. Some are leaving the bedside permanently to go into administration/case management, some are just out sick with COVID for weeks at a time. It's not even just caring for these critically sick COVID patients that bothers me, it's also the way my community is treating it. I am seeing patients die every day at work, but then I go onto social media and see that half of my friends and family are posting that this virus is fake, that we're faking death certificates for financial gain, that nurses should just keep quiet because we "signed up for this". I literally feel like I'm being gaslighted by my community about this pandemic. I'm just looking for advice. How are you guys dealing with it? How do you get back into the right headspace after a code? How are you staying healthy and keeping your stress down among all this craziness? How do you prep for a shift dealing with critically ill COVID patients? I would appreciate any advice. I