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Göttingen - nurse in intensive care unit: "I feel like I'm on deck of the Titanic"

2021-11-19T15:46:01.470Z


She is a nurse in the intensive care unit at the University Medical Center Göttingen: Here Katrin Beischer, 52, explains why corona deniers and politics are driving them onto the streets.


“I took to the streets on Tuesday because I have the feeling we won't be heard otherwise.

I feel like I'm standing on the deck of the Titanic and seeing the iceberg.

A system is just driving up against the wall.

And we will have to struggle with the effects long after the corona wave.

Many colleagues have already left and unfortunately expressed their protest by resigning.

I feel a lot of tiredness and exhaustion. More and more female colleagues are getting sick and are therefore absent. I also had the feeling that I was on the verge of burnout, even though I only have a part-time position.

I work in a center for lung failure, we use what is called an artificial lung. The worst cases are brought to us. Many organs are damaged by Covid, so that the patients then also have to go on dialysis. The protective clothing we work in makes all movements very cumbersome. We wear overalls or protective gowns, two to three layers of work clothes on top of each other. In addition, FFP-2 masks with a valve that presses a strong elastic band onto the face, protective goggles, hood over the hair, gloves. You sweat a lot under it, but because of the mask you can only drink during the break. That makes a headache.

For some time now, the number of Covid patients in the intensive care units has also been reported, but what we have to do there is hardly any empathy. I feel dehumanized, I'm just supposed to function like I have no right to complain. That's your job, I hear then, that's what you chose. As if I were a soldier and now it's war. There is also positive feedback, but very little.

The fact that many Covid patients die with us despite the super-complex therapy is difficult to bear, especially because there are now younger people, 30 to 50 years old. This is especially tragic when you think about the fact that vaccination could probably have prevented many of these deaths. In any case, I have never seen a young person without previous illnesses with full vaccination protection and such a severe course of the disease on my shifts.

Corona deniers make me angry. A distant friend wrote to me recently. He is a naturopath and claims that the lungs are not destroyed by a virus, but by 5G radiation. When a documentary about the Covid intensive care unit at the Berlin Charité was shown in the spring, I could barely read the comments on social media. Everything was fake, it said there, they were actors, the patients in the beds were accident victims or dolls, the statements of the doctors were bought.

Politicians acted far too late, they simply trusted that the vaccinations would be okay.

Now we are being used to exert pressure.

But politics is actually not doing anything to improve the situation in the clinics.

In the collective bargaining negotiations, the negotiator of the public employers even claimed that there was only a "temporary burden" in the health system, which did not justify any increases in wages.

If nothing changes now, the new generation in nursing will not be ready to do this high-performance job for which you have to have so much strength over the long term. "

Source: spiegel

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