Translated by: Wu Xia
“I am willing to stay at the fever clinic and continue to fight!”
“Chief Chunli, I want to work with our comrades!”
This week should have been the time for the outpatient nurses at Wuhan University Renmin Hospital to change their shift for the first time. However, when Chen Chunli, the leader of the nursing team, asked the on position nurses for their opinions, she did not expect that the 31 nurses unanimously stated that they were familiar with the workflow of fever clinics and knew how to properly protect themselves to serve patients, and resolutely requested to stay on the job.
“I am willing to stay at the fever clinic and continue to fight!”
Urgent formation of nursing team
In mid-January, with the development of the NCP epidemic, Renmin Hospital expanded the scale of fever clinics, and urgently transferred nurses from multiple disciplines to form a nursing team for reinforcement.
On January 20th, Chen Chunli, an obstetric nurse, received a call from the Nursing Department and arranged for her to serve as the team leader of the fever clinic. Five minutes after putting down the phone, she appeared at the fever clinic, and immediately began to organize staff to regulate the new fever clinic.
Fighting at the battlefront
After the outbreak of the NCP, the number of fever patients was particularly high. At its peak, the clinic would receive 1,100 patients a day. Due to the large number of people and the long waiting time, some patients experienced anxiety and emotional loss of control during the waiting process. The nurses brought them hot water, moved them to the bench, did everything possible to soothe the mood of the patients, and maintained a normal order of treatment.
Fever clinic nurses also undertake the collection of extremely high-risk nasopharyngeal swabs, taking an average of more than 500 specimens per day. When taking specimens, patients with fever must remove their masks and lift their heads up. Patients may cough and sneeze when the sampling tube stimulates the nasal cavity, which greatly increases the risk of the nurse exposing the infection.
In order to quickly complete the work of collecting specimens and protect their colleagues, they summarized their experience in practice, and recorded a small video of collecting nasopharyngeal swabs, to ensure that each nurse can correctly master the operation process and prevent infection. After this video was widely spread through the Internet, it was highly praised by domestic nursing peers.
"The war is not over, we will never withdraw"
This week, it is time for the first batch of front-line nurses to change shifts. During the epidemic period, fever clinics were stressful and risky, and Chen Chunli thought that it would be nice to have a small half of them to stay. She asked everyone's opinions in the WeChat group of the "Fever Squad Nursing Team", "Who wants to stay in the fever clinic and continue fighting? Please talk to me in private."
To her surprise, all of the 31 nurses said that they are familiar with the workflow and protective measures of the fever clinic, and are unwilling to put other nurses and sisters in danger, and resolutely demand to stay.
Fever clinic is the first pressure valve between the hospital and patients with new coronavirus pneumonia, and is one of the groups that feel the most pressure from the epidemic. Doctors and nursing teams have always fought at the front line. So far, no medical staff in this clinic have been infected. Among them, the longest stay has been 40 days. .
In order to ensure the physical and mental health of frontline medical staff, 31 nurses implement a multi-shift system, each of whom has at least 3 days of rest per week. This "collective change of shift" was originally intended to stop them from engaging in fever clinics and return to their original nursing positions, but they firmly chose to continue in the positions with the highest risk!
"The war is not over, we will never withdraw"
Is their unanimous voice
Is also a firm commitment to the people
Tribute to the frontline medical staff!
