Reflections from the COVID frontline: A nurse shares her experience through a difficult year Frontline nurse reflects on a year into the COVID-19 pandemic By David Whisenant | March 9, 2021 at 5:01 PM EST - Updated March 9 at 5:53 PM ROWAN COUNTY, N.C. (WBTV) - To say itâs been a year of challenges both at home and on the job would be quite an understatement, especially for those frontline healthcare workers. And they warn not to celebrate the end of the pandemic just yet as they are still dealing with it every day. âEver since I was a little kid, Iâve always wanted to be a nurse and Iâve been a nurse now for over 20 years,â said Paula Brooks, a Registered Nurse working in the Cardiac Telemetry Unit at Novant Health Rowan Medical Center in Salisbury.