 Okay so I wanted to talk to you guys you know I said I was gonna do my Dubai vlog the second one but it was a pretty kind of difficult week at work just kind of seeing everything that's been going on with the virus and how it's affecting like my job and the people around me. So this video is gonna be about the Omicron virus and just kind of how it has affected me as a trauma PA in my kind of work life I guess you could say. Alright so let's get into it right now. What's up you guys? The Donna welcome back to my channel. So it's not really like a solemn or sad video so I don't want it to seem like that at all but again like I said it was kind of difficult at work because we are just so strapped for bodies and so I just kind of wanted to touch on that because I know a lot of people are still kind of on the fence about this virus and you know wearing masks and not wearing masks and getting vaccinated and not getting vaccinated and you know I just want to put it out there I'm not telling you to like get vaccinated or wear a mask or you know telling you not to wear a mask or not to get vaccinated like it's nothing like that obviously you're your own person you can make your own decisions but this is just kind of what I have seen as a worker in the healthcare field and then just as an individual and you know I'm just gonna kind of give you like my insight that I've noticed when treating like my patients that come in with COVID or come in not knowing that they had COVID and getting like a diagnosed with COVID. Okay so this past week I worked and it was pretty interesting to say the least we everything was like skeleton crew and we are in like this crisis standard of care is like what we're calling it right and so our hospital I wouldn't say it's not as inundated with COVID as it was back in 2020 but we do have like high rise in COVID cases than we've seen in the past year like in 2021 right and so there's lots of patients that come in and I'm in the trauma department being that I'm attached to the emergency department but we are in our own little sector so yes you may come in as a traumatic event so motor vehicle accident or a stabbing a gunshot wound a traumatic fall you know being struck I guess you could say if you were like on a bicycle or if you were pedestrian walking like that's when you would come in and you would see me along with my acute care surgery aspect where you know maybe you come in and you haven't had a bowel movement for like seven days and you're like super constipated and maybe you have like a small bowel obstruction or an Ilias or like a perforated bowel something like that right so you're seeing me at like your dire moments right and so when you come in wondering if you had COVID or thinking about COVID is not really on your mind but to be in the hospital every patient that comes into our hospital is tested for COVID if you are going to be admitted or if you're gonna have surgery so with that being said I've seen like like it's not even an it's not even a question of if a person has COVID it's more so a question of who doesn't have COVID right because I promise you almost every single person that I saw as a trauma or a general surgery consult had COVID and it was like it was eerie to kind of experience and to see honestly because that wasn't something that I had been experiencing like for over a year really and truly right like when I when you come down to it like really really in 2020 that's when I was like okay like alright yeah I have to go in this room in this patient scope positive or you know like I'm so nervous or whatever I guess you may say because we knew so little about it that maybe this person might have COVID but now it's like without a shadow of a doubt everyone that we've seen has had COVID but the crazy thing or I guess the good thing you could say is that the majority of them are really asymptomatic so I've had a couple patients that came in as traumas and yeah they would have a cough more almost like a a croopy type like that kind of like raspy like COPD smoker e type of you know like croop cough like that deep that deep cough they would have and and maybe they may have had like some body aches or something like that in the past but typically most people have been asymptomatic which is really really good I guess you could say good and bad right because they can be asymptomatic and they're riding around the streets so walking down the streets going to people's houses going to their friends and family's houses and kind of infecting them as well and what we've noticed is that yes this virus is very very very highly communicable more so likened to what we would say like in terms of like what you might see with like the flu right like everybody is kind of popping up with with it you know you may have like three to five days of symptoms and then you start to get over it and it's fine right like just like any other reps upper respiratory tract infection so like that's kind of like how we've we've been seeing it but the the problem comes or the stress or the difficulty that I've been having on my job is that if somebody tests positive for COVID and we go into COVID protocol for them like they're out for a minimum of five days now the APPs like the PAs and like the nurse practitioners that work with us we we haven't really been hit that hard but we were already strapped for for people right and now with some of our colleagues in our attendings like even the docs are starting are getting sick with COVID or getting infected with COVID I should say because not really getting sick but they go into protocol and and they're out for you know a week and with with that it's like now who's picking up the slack so it's been very very stressful our nurses are stressed like they're seeing you know more than they're used to in terms of their load of patience because their colleagues are out or have quit or you know or yeah like they're doing like travel jobs or something like that and so like they are they're minimal in terms of the nursing staff minimal in terms of like your higher ups that you know minimal in terms of like the APPs and the physicians but then it's maximum in terms of people that are coming to the hospital because they feel like they have COVID or some other ailment so we are really really strapped so with that being said I guess I'm saying all of this say like y'all I'm stressed right like it's been it's been quite the ride these past couple weeks last week you know like my last shift more than mostly literally I had a patient that I was doing my job and the nurse's job and the text job because you know there was there was no one there to help there was no one else and if I didn't do it like my nurse couldn't do it because she was taking care of you know five other patients and we have to make sure like this patient was safe and so ultimately I just want to kind of implore you guys to please do your part right do your part in terms of keeping yourself safe and keeping those around you safe and those that you may not even know keeping them safe as well by just doing every single thing that you can do to make sure that we kind of limit the spread of this virus now what that may look like for you maybe something different than what it looks like for me for me it looks like you know washing my hands constantly using hand sanitizer wearing my N95 mask when I'm out in public and obviously being vaccinated as I'm in the healthcare field for you it may look different but you know if it's like going into lockdown mode and you're not going out and you're not allowing people in great but whatever that may look like I just ask that you guys please keep yourself safe in this new year and and do what you can to keep others safe because it's tough out there it's rough in those streets okay like it's it's rough and so I want to make sure that everyone is safe and healthy alright alright okay that's it thank you guys so much for watching if you haven't already done so go ahead and like this video go ahead right now hit that like button great and go ahead and subscribe follow me on Instagram adan pa and on Instagram I get that's the University thank you guys so much for watching I will talk to you guys next time