Henry Ford Allegiance Family Medicine - East Michigan issued the following announcement on Aug. 20.
Family medicine nurse Monique Morris contracted COVID-19 early in the pandemic, leading to nine days on a ventilator in the ICU and several months of recovery.
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit Detroit in mid-March, Monique Morris, R.N., and her nursing colleagues at Henry Ford Hospital worked tirelessly to provide compassionate and expert care for the influx of COVID-19 patients. It was a time when Henry Ford Hospital would have been celebrating achieving Magnet® Recognition, the highest national honor for nursing excellence, but like many parts of society amid the pandemic, the celebrations would have to wait.
For many nurses, including Monique who has been practicing for three years, the COVID-19 pandemic presented challenges unlike any they had encountered before.
“Not only was the patient volume extremely high, but we were dealing with something that was new and far less understood at that time,” Morris said. “We were focused on providing the best care possible for every patient who came in. We were all very careful in wearing the appropriate PPE, but even that was a challenge due to the national supply shortage that was affecting hospitals across the country.”
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Source: Henry Ford Allegiance Family Medicine - East Michigan
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