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The Conversation: Nurses on the frontline: A year on

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Nurses Bianca Dintino and Hannah Gray

03/05/2021 GMT

Nurses on the frontline: A year on

BBC World Service - The Conversation, Nurses on the frontline: A year on

After a year of the pandemic, how are young nurses coping?

Kim Chakanetsa catches up with two young nurses who have been treating the sickest coronavirus patients. How has a year of life-and-death nursing affected them?

In April 2020, Kim Chakanetsa spoke to two young nurses who were putting their lives on the line by treating the sickest covid-19 patients in intensive care units. At that point, only a couple of months into a global pandemic, they were exhausted but optimistic about things getting better. Kim catches up with them and asks how they are coping a year on after another wave of infections and an incresing death toll.

Hannah Grey is a 24-year-old nurse based in London. She worked as a busy Intensive Care Unit for both waves of virus infections, but has since moved on to a children’s critical unit. She has launched her own podcast, What Makes a Nurse?, sharing the stories of the many skilled nurses she met during the pandemic, as they came to help on the ICU. 

Bianca Dintino is a 27-year-old critical care nurse based at Tufts Medical Center in Boston. She was one of the first nurses to volunteer to care for coronavirus patients last year, and credits her colleagues with keeping her going. Bianca got married during the pandemic, and has been trying to find the joy in a difficult year.

Produced by Rosie Stopher 

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L: Bianca Dintino (credit Anne Marie)
R: Hannah Gray (credit Simi Sebastian)

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