Healthcare Hero: Barbara Mills, Senior Nurse Practitioner; Clinical Assistant Professor School of Medicine; Director Rapid Response Team/Code Resuscitation; Director of Nurse Practitioners
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Healthcare Hero: Barbara Mills, Senior Nurse Practitioner; Clinical Assistant Professor School of Medicine; Director Rapid Response Team/Code Resuscitation; Director of Nurse Practitioners
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Everybody is tired. A lot of people thought we would have already cured COVID so we can all move on. But it’s not over. Our heroes - the essential workers who continue to sustain this momentum of work - are still working hard every day. Our rapid response team, in particular, is trained for this sort of thing. But even we needed to get creative. We are rescuing patients who get into trouble across all service lines throughout the hospital every day, as well as now caring for patients who have tested positive for COVID-19. In fact, our team is integral when it comes to intubating patients in COVID units. We even developed a plan when the pandemic first hit to work with respiratory therapists and anesthesiologists to safely intubate COVID-positive patients while limiting exposure to patients and staff. I never thought I would see anything remotely related to a pandemic in my lifetime. But here we are. And the spread is more rapid now than ever before because people weren’t going anywhere during the quarantine. That’s not really the case anymore. But we are still here - taking care of our families and yours. We are not giving up. This has been traumatic for a lot of healthcare workers, especially those who had never worked, nor planned to work, in a critical care setting. But we’re doing what we need to do."
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2021-06-13
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