MedPage Today December 30, 2021
— Signs point to deepening issue with alcohol, drugs as nurses battle through the pandemic
Amidst the pandemic’s second wave in the fall of 2020, Tiffany Swedeen, RN, a nurse in recovery from substance use disorder, was struggling.
Working at an intensive care unit near Seattle for the better part of 16 years, she was used to caring for the sickest of the sick and feeling confident in her skills and abilities.
Suddenly though, “I didn’t anymore,” Swedeen said. Pandemic protocols changed frequently, and whether any of the COVID treatments helped or harmed was hard to tell at first. “I would have nightmares about the patients that I couldn’t save, and it was most of the patients.”
She had been...
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