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ELIZABETH LAWWILL:
Last week we had

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a patient who had
been in the hospital,

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probably working on our third
week, coronavirus patient.

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Hasn't seen family members,
hasn't been outside in the sun.

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Somehow we got him
in a wheelchair.

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We wheeled him outside
into the ER parking lot--

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so nobody was around, We're?

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In full isolation gear--

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so the family could drive by.

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I have never seen so many
smiles in my entire--

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his whole face lit up.

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I mean, he had a mask on, and
he had a lot of oxygen on.

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He was still on high flow.

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But just letting him
have the sunshine

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was probably better
than any of the medicine

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that we were giving him.

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I'm Elizabeth Lawwill.

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Most people know me as Lizze.

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I work at Sentara Martha
Jefferson Hospital

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in the Inpatient Services.

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Nursing is great.

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You have to be creative.

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Sometimes you have to
think outside the box.

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Medicine in general
is not textbook.

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If everybody met the
same points on each page,

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they wouldn't call it practice.

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I remember the first time I
got dressed in COVID gear.

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Having them help me get dressed,
it's all about teamwork.

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And so they now put
on two pairs of gloves

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so that when they leave, they
can take off the dirty pair,

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wash the clean pair, and
walk out the door by cleaning

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the handle as they go.

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I mean, I would have
never thought of that.

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And that's what's
great about nursing

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is having that opportunity to
look at what others are doing

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and kind of using what you can.

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We now are doing telehealth.

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We've never done
telehealth as a hospital.

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I can't tell you
how many times I've

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FaceTimed with families now.

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So it's changing our
practice as the months go by.

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I think nursing is
great because you

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have to be adaptable
to any situation.

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We chose to go into
the nursing profession

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because we love what we do.

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I keep thinking about front
lines in New York City.

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We haven't seen that, but we
still have our own patients.

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And so being part of that,
having that team that you trust

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and that you love, they're
your family, my nursing family.

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They have my back
and I have theirs.

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That's why I'm in nursing.

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It's not easy.

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There are really hard days.

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And so those days I come home,
I shower and decontaminate,

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and then I go and hug
those two little girls

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and tell them that I love them.

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And that's what we have
to do every day, kind

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of learning this new norm.

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