Working in Critical Care during the pandemic has been incredibly challenging, but it has highlighted how amazing and adaptable our team is, from our doctors and nurses to our physiotherapists, housekeepers and all multidisciplinary team members in between.
Read moreReflections of a Fit Tester
16th November 2021Year 2020, a very memorable year to all of us. Many suffered loss of loved ones from the pandemic; too many people died all over the world. But I have some memories, I want to share . . .
Read moreA journey of cancer treatment through Covid19
16th November 2021A Journey of Treatment through Covid 19
Read moreTears, so many tears…
16th November 2021So many deaths. So many, many deaths…..
Read moreA life changing choice: from volunteer to porter
16th November 2021In these unprecedented times with people struggling to try and cope with Covid there are stories of hope and adapting…
Read moreReflections from Cardiac Specialist Nurses
9th November 2021We are a group of Cardiac Specialist Nurses based on or around ACU, many of us have not worked in ward areas for more than 20 years…
Read moreSupporting collaborative working
15th October 2021Our hospital was the first hospital to have a patient with Covid-19 in early February 2020, at that point I was not bothered and got caught up in the excitement that I may walk past a camera and be on the BBC news in the background…
Read moreI have a little cry myself right there at the nurses station…
15th October 2021I stand at the bedside, holding up an iPad so that my dying patient’s family can say goodbye to their mother, their grandmother, their auntie…
Read morePPE was a very emotive subject…
15th October 2021My team were responsible for receiving and distributing PPE throughout the trust.
Read moreThe night before my first shift, I couldn’t sleep…
15th October 2021I started in my new role as a Macmillan Associate CNS in January 2020 but the first wave of Covid-19 hit us, and I was redeployed to Critical Care in March 2020.
Read moreMemories of strength, courage, bravery and determination…
15th October 2021After a whole year of lockdown, it’s a good time to reflect. I started working at Worthing Hospital at the beginning of March 2020. Covid hadn’t impacted us at that stage…
Read moreSt Richard’s Hospital Laundry Covid Story
15th October 2021In early 2020 with the Covid virus starting to spread throughout the population there was much concern and anxiousness within the department…
Read moreA day in the life of an ITU nurse during Covid
15th October 2021My alarm goes off at 6:00am but I have already been up for hours worrying about the day ahead. I get up, shower, eat breakfast, and put on my game face for the day…
Read moreThese are memories I shall never forgot…
14th October 2021At first the adrenaline was high as we all poured into the unknown. Each day the rules, PPE, symptoms and fatalities changed and increased.
Read moreDiary entries from March to July 2020
14th October 2021A series of diary entries spanning March till July 2020, including a personal account of contracting Covid.
Read moreWhat has this year done to me?
14th October 2021When lockdown started all the coordinators were told to work from home, I was asked but I felt my time as the assistant was much better needed in the offices and looking after the day to day stuff.
Read moreIt was a beautiful moment within a very weird situation…
14th October 2021With partners unable to join antenatal scans a sonographer reassures a nervous mum to be as she learns she’s expecting twins.
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