For a nurse in the COVID unit, death is part of the day
4 years ago

For a nurse in the COVID unit, death is part of the day

LA Times  

After checking on one of her patients, Flor Treviño was about to duck through a zippered plastic door when a flurry of beeping monitors turned her around. “I’m sorry.” Because Thomas was a doctor — one who had treated COVID-19 patients himself — Treviño felt comfortable whispering medical details in his ear. “I initially thought it would stress me out to be so out of control,” said nurse Flor Treviño on a break. Flor Treviño, center, came to work on the COVID unit at Houston’s United Memorial Medical Center after her former ICU charge nurse asked for her help. “That’s the thing with this unit: You can’t get too optimistic as staff members,” Treviño said after hearing the news.

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