Tell me Your Nursing Hurricane experience

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Hello, I am currently a junior in Nursing school and I have a project coming up about natural disasters and the nurse's role. My group's topic is Hurricanes.

I would love to know your personal experience while working in the hospital during a hurricane. What was your role? How did it affect patient care? What were the common diagnoses relating to the hurricane?

In advance, thank you for helping me and stay safe!

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Have you reached out to nursing groups on facebook? You might be able to find someone to interview through video chat. You probably don't realize this, but ESPECIALLY during a really tough time, you are asking a nurse to take a lot time out of his/her day to reply to this. Good luck!

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I agree with Orion81. I could tell you about taking care of patients evacuated from Mercy Hospital in New Orleans but I won't because we're involved in a bigger battle right now.

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