{"id":11608,"date":"2022-02-07T10:23:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T16:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/?p=11608"},"modified":"2022-02-07T10:23:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T16:23:09","slug":"navigating-the-icu-nurses-reflect-on-the-struggles-of-working-on-the-frontlines-of-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/2022\/02\/07\/navigating-the-icu-nurses-reflect-on-the-struggles-of-working-on-the-frontlines-of-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Navigating the ICU: Nurses reflect on the struggles of working on the frontlines of the pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"527\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/nursingcovid20220203.jpg\" alt=\"Treazure Kotlowski\" class=\"wp-image-11613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/nursingcovid20220203.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/nursingcovid20220203-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/02\/nursingcovid20220203-768x422.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption>Treazure Kotlowski works in the ICA at SSM Health St. Clare Hospital in Baraboo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hospital workers have been working long, stressful hours to provide care to COVID-19 patients.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last two years haven&#8217;t been easy for SSM Health nurses working at local hospitals.\u00a0UW-Stevens Point RN to BSN student Treazure Kotlowski is a registered nurse working at SSM Health St. Clare Hospital in Baraboo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She says she&#8217;ll never forget the day she first heard of the Coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I had an inkling that COVID was going to be around for a long time, shortly after we learned that it was here,&#8221; said Kotlowski.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The\n first confirmed COVID case that I took care of was a little bit of an \neerie feeling just because I was scared to take it home to my family,&#8221; \nsaid Kotlowski.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;To\n see that patient go through something really, you know, intense and \nthen have the strength to pull through and get back home to live their \nbest life is really that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s all about,&#8221; said Kotlowski.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;ll be a time that I&#8217;ll probably look back on and  appreciate the resilience that I&#8217;ve learned to have both for myself and  to inspire into my co workers,&#8221; said Kotlowski.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkow.com\/coronavirus\/navigating-the-icu-nurses-reflect-on-the-struggles-of-working-on-the-frontlines-of-the\/article_e0a8a062-8546-11ec-add6-8bb12859d10c.html\">Watch full story on WKOW<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hospital workers have been working long, stressful hours to provide care to COVID-19 patients.\u00a0 The last two years haven&#8217;t been easy for SSM Health nurses working at local hospitals.\u00a0UW-Stevens Point RN to BSN student Treazure Kotlowski is a registered nurse working at SSM Health St. Clare Hospital in Baraboo. She says she&#8217;ll never forget the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,15,546],"tags":[235,588,305,342,343,344],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11614,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11608\/revisions\/11614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}