A Pandemic Nurse's Diary
Written by: Nurse T & Timothy Sheard
Synopsis: When I walk through the automatic doors into the ICU at 7 AM, I step into a war zone. There are overflowing trash buckets and debris scattered all over the unit. Four red crash carts sit outside the rooms, their drawers open and largely empty, witnesses to the chaotic night. One of the patients who coded survived, the three others died. One body in a white plastic shroud is still in a room on the bed waiting for a stretcher. So opens the personal diary of Nurse T. She is one of the thousands of health care workers in New York City who covered their twelve-hour shifts day after day as the Covid-19 virus raged through the city. Her account is personal, poignant and poetic as she documents the suffering of the poor, largely immigrant patients who flooded the facility seeking treatment. It is also the story of a city, state and federal government that long denied hospitals like hers the funding and support they need to meet current standards. Long starved for funds, the facility’s ancient infrastructure and inadequate supplies placed a heavy burden on the staff, who nonetheless walked up the marble stairs all through the crisis and gave their best, whatever the personal cost, whatever the outcome.
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Written by: Nurse T & Timothy Sheard
Synopsis: When I walk through the automatic doors into the ICU at 7 AM, I step into a war zone. There are overflowing trash buckets and debris scattered all over the unit. Four red crash carts sit outside the rooms, their drawers open and largely empty, witnesses to the chaotic night. One of the patients who coded survived, the three others died. One body in a white plastic shroud is still in a room on the bed waiting for a stretcher. So opens the personal diary of Nurse T. She is one of the thousands of health care workers in New York City who covered their twelve-hour shifts day after day as the Covid-19 virus raged through the city. Her account is personal, poignant and poetic as she documents the suffering of the poor, largely immigrant patients who flooded the facility seeking treatment. It is also the story of a city, state and federal government that long denied hospitals like hers the funding and support they need to meet current standards. Long starved for funds, the facility’s ancient infrastructure and inadequate supplies placed a heavy burden on the staff, who nonetheless walked up the marble stairs all through the crisis and gave their best, whatever the personal cost, whatever the outcome.
Available also on: Amazon
Written by: Nurse T & Timothy Sheard
Synopsis: When I walk through the automatic doors into the ICU at 7 AM, I step into a war zone. There are overflowing trash buckets and debris scattered all over the unit. Four red crash carts sit outside the rooms, their drawers open and largely empty, witnesses to the chaotic night. One of the patients who coded survived, the three others died. One body in a white plastic shroud is still in a room on the bed waiting for a stretcher. So opens the personal diary of Nurse T. She is one of the thousands of health care workers in New York City who covered their twelve-hour shifts day after day as the Covid-19 virus raged through the city. Her account is personal, poignant and poetic as she documents the suffering of the poor, largely immigrant patients who flooded the facility seeking treatment. It is also the story of a city, state and federal government that long denied hospitals like hers the funding and support they need to meet current standards. Long starved for funds, the facility’s ancient infrastructure and inadequate supplies placed a heavy burden on the staff, who nonetheless walked up the marble stairs all through the crisis and gave their best, whatever the personal cost, whatever the outcome.
Available also on: Amazon
Language : English
Paperback : 156 pages
ISBN-10 : 1734493844
ISBN-13 : 978-1734493849
Item Weight : 6.1 ounces
Dimensions : 5 x 0.39 x 8 inches
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“An exhilarating read that takes you right to the front lines of the pandemic and the heroes risking and putting their own lives in harm’s way to save others! ...A great read that you will not be able to putdown!”
“A critical care nurse in New York City provides a vivid and powerful personal account of how Covid-19 has impacted her co-workers and patients.”
“Accompanied by beautiful drawings of hospital workers caring for patients, in their PPE...this is a narrative which helps us understand both COVID-19 and the workers who faced it.”
