NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst serves an area of nearly one million people in one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse communities in the United States. All rights reserved. We are getting death threats and are told not to wear our scrubs for safety when coming to work. She’s quarantining herself in the basement and I stay in the family room by myself.”Leyla concluded: “We hear in other countries that [medical workers] are given certain facilities. They [only] take dues out of your paycheck.”In addition to shortages of PPE, there are also shortages of staff, ventilators and medication.“I know we need ventilators desperately,” Elizabeth said. “They were looking for 10 ventilators today in the ER, I don’t know whether they found them. The city’s public Elmhurst Hospital in Queens has been overrun with seriously ill coronavirus patients — including 13 who died in a 24-hour span, officials said Wednesday. You can’t take care of anybody unless you have the people to do it.”“These patients are all on heavy medication. My friends in quarantine, they’ve written to them as well. We don’t even have face-shields.”She said she and her colleagues had “all written to the union for help. New York leads the nation in the number of cases, according to Johns Hopkins University, which is keeping a running tally. Sirotek did not name the two specific hospitals where she had been working, but a fellow nurse named Quinton Martinez told the New York Postthat Sirotek was … "They were using the ones that were sent out which would be a five to 10-day turnaround," she explained. There is a shortage of fentanyl, propofol (a sedative) and other drugs. “We have about 50-60 patients on ventilators, and roughly 300 COVID patients overall in the hospital. "There were resources that were not being utilized. I sent my two sons away who are in college because I’m taking care of COVID-19 patients and my daughter is also a nurse taking care of COVID-19 patients. It’s terrible. Many survive but many are dying and dying. The fill rate (the rate that filed prescriptions are actually filled and shipped to the hospitals) declined from 100 percent at the beginning of March to just 63 percent by March 24.The demand for three analgesics, including fentanyl and morphine, rose 67 percent, while the fill rate dropped from 82 to 73 percent. We can save one patient, but then another’s condition worsens. It’s fear, once we’re in the hospital we feel scared. Moreover, they are facing serious emotional stress because they fear exposing their families.Elizabeth said, “I’m taking care of COVID-19 patients every day. One of my friends tested positive, and now she’s in isolation. They are in such bad condition that they cannot even be touched, or turned, because as soon as you do anything, their oxygen goes down and they start crashing.“It’s not just the ventilators keeping them alive, it’s also medication, which we are running out of. I’ve never seen something like this, I’ve never seen so many young people die. [You are] five minutes in and you’re already taking care of a patient in critical condition. All rights reserved. Everyone has that feeling that they’re needed. But now, we are taking 11-12. Look at [South] Korea or Japan, they had full body protection.
Erin Marie Olszewski is a nurse who worked at what is being called the “epicenter of the epicenter” of the COVID crisis, New York City’s Elmhurst Hospital. Yesterday, two people died. Emergency room nurses gather flowers donated to the hospital staff on a ramp outside Elmhurst Hospital Center's ER after a neighbor dropped them off, Saturday, March 28, 2020. We had two and a half months. So many of the nurses have kids, the kids are small and are looking for answers. “We were told that we could wear only one N95 mask for 5 days.
""Think early on, and this is my opinion, Governor Cuomo requested all these vents -- "And that was at the patients’ expense," she concluded.Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inboxThis material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. They have the same look. It’s very, very emotionally exhausting. People are going to die, lots of people are going to die and it’s going to be like Italy.”Leyla, a nurse in another unit, said, “Once you enter the hospital, everything changes. The respiratory therapist is the one who hooks up the patient to the ventilator. or redistributed.
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