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Diana Bolton
What nursing means to me
Right now, I’m scared. I’m a nurse and my job is to face the beast the rest of the world is hiding from. Tensions are high and I adopt the anxieties of others. I feel paralyzed by so many fleeting ‘what ifs.’ What if I contract COVID-19 and pass it on to those I love? What if I don't get compensated if I’m off sick? What if this kills me and it’s all over? The ‘what ifs’ run through my being and numb me, leaving emptiness where happiness and gratitude once thrived. Right now, I can't even enjoy my favourite meal. Will this end? I pause, and for a brief moment, I am still. I open my mind and heart to invite all the feelings in. I even invite the ones that have brought me pain in the past. I...

 

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Summer 2020
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Jordan Gross

Jordan Gross

Jordan Gross is a mental health RN at Thunder Bay Regional Hospital.