CHEYENNE, Wyo. (Wyoming News Now) - Since the beginning of the pandemic, Cheyenne Regional Medical Center’s Intensive Care Unit Nurses have been treating patients with COVID-19 on a near daily basis. Though cases and hospitalizations stayed pretty steady during the summer, in the Fall of 2020, cases and hospitalizations were at their peak, and the ICU was hit hard.
Dawn Bartlett is a Registered Nurse in the ICU at CRMC and is approaching her sixth year with the hospital. She said in a place where they are usually able to make a difference in peoples lives, it was hard to be up against an unknown like the COVID-19 pandemic.
“We do a great job taking care of people and we make a lot of differences in lives in that, we are able to save a lot of people. As COVID was rolling in, in the fall, whenever it was getting to be really bad, we weren’t able to save people like we had before and I think that was hard to take home every night.”
“In the fall we had so many patients that we didn’t have enough rooms for them sometimes, and our entire ICU was full of COVID patients, so it wasn’t just hard in that regard, but other patients that need the ICU, we had to make an entire new unit for them so our staff had adjust to all of that,” said CRMC RN in the ICU, Rosa Williams, who has been with CRMC for more than seven years.
Williams said the ICU team has been through some tough times, but it’s comforting now knowing how far they’ve come with treating patients. It was also hard that the patients are not allowed to have visitors, but that didn’t stop the nurses from doing everything they could to comfort patients.
”I do believe that family interaction and support really helps with the healing process and we were getting none of that. We did start doing FaceTime to where you could hear that loved ones voice, and that loved one can see the patient, and that’s the best we could do, and it still wasn’t enough but it was the best we could do,” said Bartlett.
“We had to talk to family members over the phone about how their loved one was doing and it wasn’t always good news. So I think that for me, that was one of the hardest parts,” said Williams.
As the Cheyenne community continues to make progress in the fight against the pandemic, Williams and Bartlett are looking forward to what the future has in store.
“I’m looking forward to maybe a new normal, I don’t know what that is, but I feel like it’s out there,” said Bartlett.
“The best thing, I think, is that people are able to see their loved ones in nursing homes again. That’s a long time to go without seeing your family and of course in a nursing home, that’s what you look forward to. So I think that’s one of the most exciting things, is that families get to be together again,” said Williams.
This story is the second of a three part series spotlighting CRMC’s healthcare staff during the pandemic. Next week the series will finish with interviews with two of CRMC’s Respiratory Therapists.
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