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Reena – Nurse Practitioner

Published on
September 9, 2020
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👨‍⚕️💉🧬 Medical professionals are constantly under pressure to provide high-quality care to their patients.

💪🧠 It is important for healthcare professionals to take care of themselves physically and mentally in order to be able to perform well in their jobs.

🏋️‍♀️🧘‍♂️ Some helpful ways to improve mental and physical well-being include exercise, meditation, and taking time for self-care.

🤝🗣️ Building and maintaining a supportive network of colleagues and mentors can also have a positive impact on mental health and job satisfaction.

👀📖 Recognizing signs of burnout in oneself and others, and taking action to address it, is crucial for maintaining a healthy work-life balance and ensuring the best possible care for patients.

Takeaways:

🧠 Take care of your physical and mental health through exercise, meditation, and self-care.

🤝 Build and maintain a supportive network of colleagues and mentors.

🚨 Recognize signs of burnout and take action to address it.

Reena: A Nurse Practitioner in the Time of COVID-19

By Medical School Content Creator

Introduction

This is Reena. She is a Nurse Practitioner

Reena is a nurse practitioner who has been through a lot in the past few months. She was an emergency nurse for 6 years before switching to her current role. However, after being trained in March, just when COVID-19 hit, she had to face a new role, new position, and new situation. In this article, we learn about the challenges and experiences of a nurse practitioner working with complex geriatric patients in the time of COVID-19.

Challenges in Communication

We find that the telephone has been the basic mechanism of communication that most people can use. We’ve had a lot of challenges because there are underhoused people who don’t have devices, or people who will give us a number and it’s disconnected. Additionally, some of their health issues are pretty complex.

As a healthcare worker, you want to help. You want to provide what you can to improve their quality of life.

When you can’t reach patients, it’s sad and you keep trying, but in the end sometimes you can’t get through. You then have to reason with yourself. Hopefully, you’ve set up enough mechanisms on your first visit that they have a fallback. This has been key with all the visits that we do. Overall, I think that COVID-19 has really amplified the need to support our community.

Pandemic-Influenced Changes

I think that this pandemic has also brought many things to light, such as provider wage gaps, providing support and community resources to caregivers, and equitable care.

There are areas of the city that have amazing resources, and then there are areas of the city that have zero resources.

I’m hopeful that people will pay attention to that, and I hope that this is a time where we’re putting more efforts into making a better change.

Coping Mechanisms

Art is a mechanism for me to express how I feel emotionally. I was doing a lot of illustrations and detail work, but something about this situation made me want to do abstract work. This kind of expression lets me zone everything out so I can really turn my brain off. I don’t need to overthink anything, I don’t need to manage anything, I don’t need to worry about anything. I just let the art flow through whatever is going on in my heart and it’s been a really nice way to manage everything going on.

You can find Reena's work on Instagram here.

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