I am not a nurse. But I am married to one. Sometimes I try to take some of the concepts that she explains to me and write about them.
A few days ago I talked about the number of nurses that it takes to take care of a patient in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). I want to expand on that a little more, based on my experience being married to an ICU nurse during “times like these”. A quick recap – for most ICUs, the typical ratio in a single shift is 1 […]
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My wife is an ICU nurse. Specifically, she works in a Medical ICU, which at her hospital, is the primary unit responsible for taking care of COVID-19 patients. The Medical ICU staff has the training and experience that lines up with the symptoms exhibited by most COVID patients (they are used to taking care of extreme cases of flu, people with lung failure, pneumonia, etc).
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