Mena2015

I agree, all of us are worn out.. We are currently taking 5 patients each in my unit. Originally, we were told we would never have more then 3.. That lasted about a day during the first wave. Last shift I had 3 totals. We have an older patient population, so needless to say we get a lot of dementia patients who are confused and a high fall risk, most of our patients have multiple comorbidities. It´s just a really heavy work load and we kept being asked to do more...

Are any of you experiencing this issue? Since the first wave hit, some of the nurses at work have refused to care for COVID patients. Management has allowed this and continues to do so.. My unit, Telemetry, became a makeshift COVID unit, with half available beds allocated to COVID patients. Last night all of the other nurses and techs scheduled to work with me refused to take COVID patients. Luckily an ER nurse, and a tech from another unit came to the rescue. However, this is so disheartening to see. Our patient ratio continues to increase -taking 5 patients each at the moment. Phlebotomists refuse to come to the COVID side to draw labs. It´s awful and heartbreaking...