Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “MIT honors its nurses”.
[, music playing ], I like to call MIT Medical, the best little country clinic in the middle of the city.. So I think it’s very hard to put into words how integral our nursing staff is for the care of our patients. The families of our patients and our community. And I think, they’re kind of the MVPs, if you will, of our team here., Providing care to patients all while continuing to assist and manage a primary care practice and all of the clinical work. That still needs to be done on top of all of the new public health work..
I think the thing that really impresses me about the nurses at MIT Medical is their ability to identify and respond to all the different needs of the people who are here at all different stages of their lifespan. And try to provide a very dignified response to times. When people are not feeling all that sure of themselves or feel a little bit vulnerable., And it is the nurse who can really make that connection and make them feel comfortable. Nursing to me – consists of three components. The physical aspect of assessing a patient for checking their vitals for hands-on procedures.. The second aspect would be the educator.
We’re there to educate them on their injury, their syndrome, their disease. And the third part of that is the care and compassionate part of nursing. With COVID. We weren’t able to do two of those three components, because the clinics were shut down., We weren’t able to educate the patients because the virus was so unknown and the care and compassion we’ve spent all our time on the phones, providing care and compassion to our community. To put them at ease and lower their anxiety level. This past year, the biggest challenge was being that reassuring, confident face for our patients and family members..
When we had our doubts and our concerns for ourselves for our fellow staff and for our own families., The most rewarding is seeing those babies that were born in March and April. Now. Turning a year old and able to look at us with our mask on and see our smiles and smile back at us., So there was a new sense of team and collegiality and true compassion for each other at a personal level and a professional level that was Maybe one of the positive things to come out of the year 2020.. After this pandemic, we are going to advance in some ways.
Tele-Health now provides patients within our community and throughout the world with access to medical professionals that they never had before., And so I think for us, the pandemic, and this experience has just highlighted the strength of our nursing team, the resiliency of our nursing team, the skill Of our nursing team and really that ability to rally. – And I don’t think, there’s ever been a time where we’ve had to learn and live all at the same time as the pandemic. .