McKnight's March 26, 2024
Anyone who was working in healthcare in 2020 knows it was a rough year. When the lockdown happened, my staff with young children didn’t have daycare anymore. They didn’t have school anymore. The grandparents who watched the kids were hunkered down in their homes and couldn’t come over. Staff with small children stopped coming to work. My job suddenly went from administrative to patient care-centered, and those patients were on the new COVID unit.
We saw a lot. We saw death on a daily basis, but we also saw some successes. Some of our patients made it home, but many didn’t. Our strength and determination carried us through the worst thing we had ever seen. As much as our friends...