Nebraska nurses exhausted and frustrated with unvaccinated COVID patients

Like many health care professionals, Heather Elliott believed the arrival of COVID-19 vaccines earlier this year would put the darkest days of the pandemic behind them.

“The very first day the vaccine went live, we were all on the phone that minute, ‘how fast can we get a shot?’ We thought everyone would be that way, standing in line to get their shot,” Elliott, a discharge nurse at Bryan Health in Lincoln, wrote in a recent Facebook post.

But that hasn’t happened.

After a surge in vaccinations this spring, the push dried up, and everyone considered the pandemic over, she and other health care providers said. Now the virus is back.

“People are running, and they’re tired,” Elliott said. “It’s a constant rat race of getting this thing done so you can move on. I miss the days when you can sit in a patient’s room and just talk to them.”

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(Scottsbluff Star-Herald)