“Two years ago people were screaming for health care heroes through their windows and now it means nothing to be a nurse. I’m not sure what changed.'
Nursing continues to suffer significant collateral damage from the ongoing war on COVID-19. Photo: Jeffrey Basinger/Newsday via Getty Images At Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, patients have found there is no nurse to greet them when they enter the pediatric emergency room in the borough’s largest public hospital and are forced instead to pack into a waiting room with two dozen or more people for up to three hours before a nurse checks their vital signs.
Hospitals are still struggling to help patients because Omicron has ballooned patient volumes, with many people heading to emergency rooms to search for COVID tests that have been in short supply. “Urgent care centers are full, so patients are utilizing the ER for that purpose and that overstretched the staff. They could be seeing somebody that’s sicker, instead we’re clogged up with patients seeking these tasks.” one nurse at Wyckoff Medical Center said.
“Nurses have to take time off but they are being asked to come back. As recently as before Christmas they were calling people who were sick to see how sick they were and could come anyway,” one nurse at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital said. “I hear people coughing around me and it feels like just a matter of time until I get it. I would be out for a while if I got sick.”
Omicron spread quickly through the city health care corps over the past four weeks, forcing nurses and support staff to isolate at home. Their absences have prompted hospital executives and the CDC to trim COVID isolation guidelines for the sick, allowing health care workers to return to work after five days at home following a positive test. Some administrators pressured workers to come back as soon as their symptoms recede, remaining in isolation as short as 72 hours.
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