Nurse Julia Trainor called the husband of a patient she was intubating so he could talk to his wife. 'I had to put him on the phone and hold the phone to her ear as he told her that he loved her so much, and then I had to wipe away her tears.' https://reut.rs/3cfSydu  1/5
'The hardest moment during the shift was just seeing COVID patients die helpless and without their family members beside them,' says Ernest Capadngan, a nurse in the hospital's biocontainment unit 2/5
'I had a patient fall out of bed today and I had to call his wife and tell her and she couldn't come see him, even though she pleaded and begged to come see him,' says Tracey Wilson, a nurse practitioner 3/5
'One of the hardest moments was having to see a family member of a COVID patient say goodbye over an iPad,' says Tiffany Fare, a nurse in the biocontainment unit. 'You can't see your loved one and then they're gone.' 4/5
'The hardest thing in all of this, has been taking care of fellow healthcare providers. It really hits home and it's really scary when you see someone that could be you coming in,' says Martine Bell, a nurse practitioner. Read more from medical staff: https://reut.rs/3cfSydu  5/5
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