Research shows hospital workers are experiencing stress levels that parallel those of soldiers in a warzone.
CHICAGO — Two years into the pandemic is taking a major psychological toll on frontline health care workers.
“More people going to the ICU and more people not coming out of the ICU and seeing more names on that list of people who had passed away,” said King, who felt a breaking point months into the pandemic. “Mine was kind of that year mark and then everything kind of came tumbling down and everything I had to process at once. And it was too much, too much to process."
“To me, it was very analogous to what combat troops go through,” said Mark Schimmelpfennig a Rush University Medical Center chaplain and former U.S. Army veteran. “They were fighting a war against an enemy we couldn't see feel touch hear, taste.” That work uses similar techniques engaged in by veterans combatting trauma, including group counseling sessions brought to nurses and other hospital staff directly in their wards.
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