Ms Nittla's patient was in an eight-bed bay, surrounded by people who were also unconscious.The medical team paused for a moment and stopped talking, and Ms Nittla placed a phone next to the patient's ear, and asked her daughter to speak."I sat beside her, holding her hands until she passed away," she says."I saw flashing lights on the monitor and the heart rate hit zero - flat line - on the screen," she says. Ms Nittla disconnected the tubes providing sedation drugs.
"With the help of a colleague, I gave her a bed bath and wrapped her in a white shroud and placed her in a body bag. I put a sign of the cross on her forehead before closing the bag," she says.Ms Nittla says that being able to care for the dying has helped her cope with the crisis. "Normally in critical care we maintain a one-to-one ratio [one nurse per patient]. Now it is one nurse for every three," says Ms Nittla.Some nurses in her team have shown symptoms of the virus and are now in self-isolation. The hospital is retraining other support nurses to work in critical care.
"People tell me I shouldn't be working but this is a pandemic. I put everything aside and do my job," she says.
Scaremongering propaganda.
Wow what a responsibility hope that you’re not the only one and that you’ll get any input you need if you should need it what a star you are stay safe out there
Please to meet you I’m the man In charge of turning off my iPad
More fake news bollocks
Point of information for UK readers ICU nurses here manage every aspect of ventilation including switching it off. ‘Respiratory Therapists’ is not a registered AHP role in the UK. Wouldn’t dream of commenting on practice elsewhere without knowledge of it :)
I want factual information, not reality tv reporting. I’m switching off
But how many died.... that's all the BBC want to know.
Unnecessary tweet,many people for lots of reasons will find this tweet very distressing.
That’s really sensitive matter :(
It takes a very special individual to care the way this nurse and her colleagues do......
DO your Research... Nurses Do Not touch Ventilators!! Its the Responsibility of the Respiratory Therapist! What poor Journalism!!! Interview the right professional!!!!
The picture is cruel, she looks so indiferent
plenty of medical staff up and down the country that have to turn off life support that dont pose for pictures .this is just wrong.
allisonpearson are you listening
What is it with the BBC and death porn. It’s all they have been churning out these past few weeks.
This is inaccurate. We don’t ‘switch off ventilators’. Patients would suffocate. We extubate them, after which switch the ventilator is switched off (no longer connected) and replace that with mask oxygen and if necessary a little morphine to lessen the respiratory distress.
Do we really need to know this?
If u r a Educator that means u Educate the frontline RNs on new equipment, procedures and protocols. u dont go anywhere near Vents B.S100% The Respiratory Therapists do this every Shift. I have turned off many Vents for patients of all ages.Never did I have a Educator by my side
I really dont get these stories, they seem to serve no purpose other than to scare the public. We know they must exist these official people who turn off the ventilators, but in the middle of a pandemic, with many people on them at risk of them not surviving, why rub it in.
Your job is hard. Many hugs for everything you do
Thi may not be the smartest thing to publicise. There's some strange people out there.
glamour shoot!
Why no story's surrounding the deaths of those who've had their elective & non surgeries canceled? This is also very important, because ventilators and life saving healthcare is being denied on a 'just in case a COVID19 crisis hits' basis'. Empty hospitals & OR's while others die
Brave.
What the hell is this? Do we really need articles like this? This is someone's death we're talking about, do we really need to make it into some click bait article? This is not news or journalism. It's unnecessary and crass.
Why hasn't anyone reported her?
Oh please 🙄 wicked news!
All three of them?
I was in a coma on icu 4 years ago. On a ventilator with a trachey. The memories I have of icu are the nurses and their unbelievable care. Thank you for providing that care, that dignitity right until the end, ❤
Grim reaper
Well do your job and stop looking for attention
Respect to her must be Ever!! So Hard doin sum thin lyk that!! Xxx 💓💓💓 🙌x🙌
Why a story at 2.45am?
tough job to have
Why is that bed not being used?
Oh dear. Do we really want to hear this? Put me to sleep now.
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