MSNBCW The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell May 3, 2020
When things really started getting tough in my unit, it was a sunday. And i was working and we were putting down breathing tube after breathing tube in these patients. We got up to 14 or 15 ventilators in our 18bed icu. And it was just one after the other. And we were all scared. Nobody knows how to navigate this, and were just taking it shift by shift and day by day, trying not to get overwhelmed. One of the things thats really hard for us, as icu nurses, were used to having constant access to our patients. We have very sick patients and were used to going in there and assessing and reassessi...