Pandemic: our frontline soldiers

[Jin]

Seems like we have a fair amount of medical professionals on this board.

This pandemic is our generations big war and these men and women are our frontline soldiers.

THANK YOU!!!

This will be a battle.

Be safe. DO GOOD.

 

[Zomb131]

War? oook.

 

[Jin]

War? oook.

Yeah, war.

You familiar? People dying all around you. PTSD?

Most of these folks aren’t going to be accustomed to a critical care/ER environment.

Many folks on the front lines in Italy are 4th and 5th year med school students. Probably have never witnessed a live death. Now they are multiple daily.

War. Oooooooook?!?!

 

[Mike_RN]

You can’t force a cardiologist to be a trauma surgeon and only ER, ICU or PACU RNs are critical care certified. The rest are doing more with less for the walking wounded...but they aren’t being thrust into critical care roles they cannot fill....not yet at least.

 

[Jin]

You can’t force a cardiologist to be a trauma surgeon and only ER, ICU or PACU RNs are critical care certified. The rest are doing more with less for the walking wounded...but they aren’t being thrust into critical care roles they cannot fill....not yet at least.

Who said anything about force?

People are going to step up. So, thanks in advance!

 

[SAD]

Yeah, war.

You familiar? People dying all around you. PTSD?

Most of these folks aren’t going to be accustomed to a critical care/ER environment.

Many folks on the front lines in Italy are 4th and 5th year med school students. Probably have never witnessed a live death. Now they are multiple daily.

War. Oooooooook?!?!

All due respect to our health care professionals on this board and around the country... nobody is trying to kill you while you urgently try to save a life with minutes to work, not days and weeks. On a battlefield in the dirt with whatever equipment you have on your person, not in a hospital with power and water and other supplies. In a country that wants you gone, with people that talk about you in front of you in a language you don’t understand, and still having to do your job because you’re a soldier and you can’t just quit, not in your own town with people you know and freedom to be you and make your own decisions.

I applaud all of our first responders during this time. Just thought there should be some perspective in here.

 

[Mike_RN]

Who said anything about force?

People are going to step up. So, thanks in advance!

The amount of knowledge and skill, a 2-3yrs ICU or ER nurse has, is more than a 20yr veteran Med-Surg RN. The desire to help can’t bridge the training gap is what I meant.

 

[Jin]

All due respect to our health care professionals on this board and around the country... nobody is trying to kill you while you urgently try to save a life with minutes to work, not days and weeks. On a battlefield in the dirt with whatever equipment you have on your person, not in a hospital with power and water and other supplies. In a country that wants you gone, with people that talk about you in front of you in a language you don’t understand, and still having to do your job because you’re a soldier and you can’t just quit, not in your own town with people you know and freedom to be you and make your own decisions.

I applaud all of our first responders during this time. Just thought there should be some perspective in here.

It was a metaphorical use of the term war.

I certainly wasn’t trying to take anything away from soldiers on a battlefront.

 

[SAD]

My generation has been at war since I was in high school and watched the twin towers fall while in Mr. O’Neill‘s history class. Calling this “our generation’s big war”, at this point, is way too early and dismissive of a real war we’ve been fighting for almost 2 decades. It’s also too early to call it “our generations big wolf cry”, but it may turn out to be that on the flip side.
Again, I appreciate all of those working on this from any and all angles. And I understand and appreciate you giving a shout out to them.

 

[JackD]

my area is going to be probably less busy for a bit, so I help where needed.

I’ll be helping screen patients coming in, still think there needs to be more done when people arrive.

 

[CFM]

I am going out on a limb here. In war you see the guy next you shot in head, another has lost an arm and both legs, he's bleeding out. Sick with a flu-cold in a hospital bed doesn't match the mental state of someone under fire and killing other humans to survive a battle.

 

[Mike_RN]

I’ve done both and have more PTSD from the ER/Trauma. In war men die alone or with each other but they know the possibility is real.

In an ER that 16yr olds mother is begging you to save her baby while he bleeds out from that car accident.