Back inside Dallas’ Parkland Hospital with nurses who have a lot of healing left to do | SharonFGrigsby
Picking up the slack on understaffed units, these heroic caregivers mostly talk about COVID in past tense.
The entire Parkland campus feels a lot like its old self. The lobby is abuzz with visitors and volunteers. Able-bodied patients are allowed to eat meals in the public food court. Even the gift shop is open again.Plexiglas protections are down. Walls long pinned with bags of each caregivers’ personal protection garb are bare.that beginning almost three years ago warned of the dangers of COVID contagion on the other side.
When we talked last January, Herrington questioned how nurses “even come to work every day considering what has been thrown at them.” “COVID is not holding us hostage like it was — not in our own lives or at the hospital,” Stevens said. Stevens said managing a staff through the pandemic taught the long-time trauma nurse the need to “take a more human approach and help people more.”
Jan Noguerra, who has spent most of his first four years in nursing in the COVID battle, said his lesson out of the pandemic is realizing how much “it hardened my will” to persevere in the profession. Recruiting good nurses is perhaps management’s biggest headache as institutions everywhere try to fill holes. Since the pandemic began, many joined the lucrative traveling nurse industry, some took less stressful health care jobs and others got out of the profession entirely.
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