Fighting COVID Information Fatigue in Iowa
By Lyle Muller for IowaWatch.Broadcast version by Mike Moen for Iowa News Service reporting for the IowaWatch-Public News Service Collaboration Rachel Fratzke led her Mercy Iowa City nursing staff in a meditation session to start the work day Monday morning. A nurse manager, she had the nurses do deep breathing exercises and think about when they first wanted to be a nurse, or how they felt about passing their certifying board exams. The session was necessary, Fratzke said, to deal with the facts of COVID-19 and the rippling effects the coronavirus is sending through the nurses' work day but...