![]() “I watched your students teach experienced nurses who were floated to the ER about ventilator settings and how to manage a Propofol drip in relation to a patient’s blood pressure. They are working tirelessly with minimal supervision and without being prompted or directed. “I have seen your students manage up and approach charge nurses and physicians to tell them they had discovered a critical task that needed to be completed and they had already gotten it done rather than wait around to be told to do so. The students took on this task without a complaint or without letting pride interfere with duty. Because of that, they wouldn’t be taking care of patients, but instead would spend their shift doing the dirty, dangerous, and tiring job of terminal cleaning the isolation rooms, over and over and over. “I have seen your students told that housekeeping was shorthanded because, out of fear, the bulk of the shift had called out of work. I have spent the better part of my life leading young men on battlefields, and what I am seeing from your students, my classmates, is on par with what I saw there regarding young people defying expectations. ![]() “Your students are in that ER working with zeal and resolve, with compassion and competency, and with dedication. ![]() What I see in that ER every day or night when I go into work is tired staff, supply shortages, very sick people and your students. We see at least a two-dozen suspected Covid-19 patients a day who require full isolation precautions, in addition to the patient load that already existed. We were busy and shorthanded before the pandemic began, and that situation has only worsened. Since we stopped attending class on campus, I have been working quite a few hours as a tech in a local Emergency Room. “I wanted to take a minute to tell you about what some of your students are doing during this unplanned interruption of the academic year. He asked that his name not be used because he said this isn’t about him -he feels like he is standing on the shoulders of giants - so we’ll just call him “Nate.” ![]() He wrote the message because he wanted the school to see what he sees in his classmates. Since their clinical education was put on hold because of the outbreak, they have been working as nurse techs in hospitals hit hard by rapidly increasing numbers of patients with or suspected of having COVID-19. (WVUE) -LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing faculty received a message from one of their students who, along with about a dozen others, is responding to the COVID-19 crisis in Louisiana. ![]()
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