"I am contacting you because I am a brand new nurse and the coronavirus situation is extremely stressful. I am considering quitting my new job because the risk I am at and I was hoping you could help me make that decision because it is weighing…
"I am contacting you because I am a brand new nurse and the coronavirus situation is extremely stressful. I am considering quitting my new job because the risk I am at and I was hoping you could help me make that decision because it is weighing on me so heavily.
"Here are my circumstances: I was hired as a psychiatric nurse and started working on [x] at a hospital. I am a new graduate with no experience in the field. The hospital I work at is now at full capacity and there are no more respirators left. My unit is a psych unit so we do not have the normal things a medical floor has.
"Although other hospitals have stopped admitting patients into psych units because of the coronavirus, our hospital continues to admit new patients to the unit. This morning we admitted our first patient with a pending Covid test and she is symptomatic. Although no one from administration is talking to us at all about any of this, my assumption is we will begin to care for these covid patients.
"The hospital is out of equipment. Our floor has not had hand sanitizer for weeks and we are now using shampoo as soap at the only 2 hands sinks we have. Nurses on other units taking care of the covid patients have told me they are reusing n95 masks for days and do not have any gowns.
"They have described the scene on these floors as 'something out of a horror movie.' We have 2 employees so far that have been intubated; one in his sixties the other is 30 years old.
"I want to quit so badly because of the lack of regard for the health care workers health. I am terrified of getting sick and then the hospital not being able to treat me. I have a 3 year old son and my husband at home and I would never be able to forgive myself if they got sick. I know my mind tends to go to worst case scenario but we are seeing healthy people becoming critically ill at the hospital so I don't think I am being too irrational.
"My husband's company just suspended work until further notice so we will not be gettin..
