Many hospital staff treating the sickest patients during the first wave of the pandemic were left traumatised by the experience, aResearchers at King's College London asked 709 workers at nine intensive care units in England about how they were coping as the first wave eased.
Their workload has been relentless, caring for more patients than is ideal and under extremely challenging circumstances.Lead researcher Prof Neil Greenberg said the findings should be a "wake-up call" for NHS managers. And he said that, while their work suggested things may have improved over the summer, there were signs the numbers experiencing mental health problems would rise in November and December.Victoria Sullivan, an intensive care nurse at Queen's Hospital in Romford, said she often can't sleep because she's thinking about what is happening at the hospital.
"Although you're saying how sorry you are, in the back of your mind, you're also thinking: 'I've got three other patients I've got to go and see, the infusions need drawing up, and meds need to be given and a nurse needs support'.Prof Partha Kar, diabetes consultant at Portsmouth Hospitals NHS trust, said it was "really, really difficult seeing people battling through all sorts of odds".
'AGILE'🤩 launched by the Industry at the covid beginning was my illuminata keyword🤩🌟🤩 Then? Bureaucracy won? Again?
People in lazy bureaucratic career cannot face the emergency, dear BBC🤔
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