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Category: Powerful Perspectives

A hospital staff member in blue scrubs adjusts his mask.

Powerful Perspectives

An OT Reflects: Falling and Rising Together

Things are getting better. We now have access to tools to mobilize our intubated patients, new treatment protocols, and we know more about protecting ourselves and our patients.

categories and tags Powerful Perspectives, COVID-19

Powerful Perspectives

Expressing Her Gratitude Through Art

“There’s somebody there holding your hand. If I would’ve passed away, I wasn’t going to pass away alone because one of God’s children was with me. “

categories and tags Powerful Perspectives, COVID-19
A gray-haired man seated in a chair looks out the window.

Powerful Perspectives

Transforming a Patient’s Healing Journey

He was soon discharged to a ventilator rehab facility and is now home and doing really well in his follow-ups with SVMH pulmonologists.

categories and tags Powerful Perspectives, COVID-19
An out-of-focus image of a pregnant woman getting an ultrasound

Powerful Perspectives

Healing Through Shared Experiences

“We started a quarterly Zoom wellness social called Toast for Tranquility. Each event had a short educational wellness presentation, but it was most importantly a platform for our providers to share their experiences and struggles with one another,” Dr. Scott says.

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A nurse’s gloved hand holds a patient’s hand during a blood oxygen check.

Powerful Perspectives

The View from the ICU

Laurie Freed, BSN, RN, CCRN-CSC, an ICU/CCU nurse, was overwhelmed with emotion when vaccines became available because she had seen so many patients succumb to the virus in the winter of 2020-21.

categories and tags Powerful Perspectives, COVID-19, ICU
A pile of decorated nurse masks

Powerful Perspectives

Mylene in the Storm

Mylene Peralta, BSN, RN, brought humanity to hardship, calm to calamity, peace where all the pieces seemed to be falling apart.

categories and tags Powerful Perspectives, COVID-19

Powerful Perspectives

Facing the Pandemic with Preparation and Perseverance

In collaboration with physicians, two Emergency Department nurses implemented an algorithm to determine which patients could be treated and monitored in the care tents versus which ones would need to be admitted to the hospital.

categories and tags Powerful Perspectives, COVID-19, Emergency Department

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