My head has been pounding the second half of the day. They take our N95 masks at the end of every shift to "clean" them. They always smell so strongly of chemicals. I'm suspicious they are the cause of my headaches. Switching back to my Darth Vader mask, hopefully that helps.
All of the travel nurses that have been sent here just got their contracts decreased down to 6 weeks. Most of them had signed up for 8, which is good news. That's the hospitals projecting that they will not need us in around a month. We will see if that happens, right now they are still mandating 4 shifts a week from their normal employees.
I have no idea how these nurses have been working like this for 2 months. I have only been here 3 weeks and I am exhausted. I am starting to get why they were super excited for travel nurses to come, I would be looking for relief as well.
My patient from the first part of the week passed away 2 days ago. Today, I extubated someone who had been on the ventilator for a month.
Britt.