Melissa Schumacher, nurse manager of St. Elizabeth-Edgewood Pulmonary Unit, enters a COVID-19 patient's room on Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022. She works as a staff nurse as well as managing her staff because of nursing shortages - often caused by her staff getting COVID-19.

COVID-19 puts Cincinnati healthcare workers in ‘PTSD-like situation’

[ad_1] The doors are all closed on 3C. Every patient in the pulmonary unit at St. Elizabeth-Edgewood Hospital has COVID-19. Every day and often into the night, Melissa Schumacher, the unit’s nurse manager, is texting, emailing, calling nurses, even nurses whose usual job is education or quality control or informatics, asking them to take shifts […]

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