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Tomorrow will be a better day...
March 2020. Three-week holiday in Canada visiting my sister on Vancouver Island, what a treat except the signs of a pandemic were brewing as I departed Heathrow.....
Three words to describe how staff are feeling...
Art representing a cross-section from all the available staff in my areas, who were asked to provide us with three words describing how they felt working throughout Covid
They nursed dying patients, for some this was a new experience...
I was impressed by the courage and commitment shown by our children's critical care nurses, particularly during the second wave.....
These are memories I shall never forgot...
At first the adrenaline was high as we all poured into the unknown. Each day the rules, PPE, symptoms and fatalities changed and increased.
Then came New Year’s Eve, a day I will never forget...
I will never forget how it felt donning for the first time. My hands shaking and the tension in the air palpable as I pulled down my visor and took a deep breath and pushed the ITU doors open....
The night before my first shift, I couldn't sleep...
I 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.
Tears, so many tears...
So many deaths. So many, many deaths.....
Supporting our colleagues with IT
During COVID the IT teams across all sites supplied over 1200 Laptops, PC's, Phones and nearly 1000 headphones and accessories.
Supporting collaborative working
Our 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...
Staff turned to the infection prevention team...
Submitted by Sharon Deputy Director of Infection Prevention December 2019 – we heard rumblings of a ...
St Richard's Hospital Laundry Covid Story
In early 2020 with the Covid virus starting to spread throughout the population there was much concern and anxiousness within the department...
Smiling eyes and full hearts
I have really treasured working as part of the admin team for the Vaccination Hub at St Richards. Because of cancelled meetings and altered priorities, I was able to offer half of my substantive hours to the hub.
