Kevin Schwedhelm, MSN, RN, spouse of Shelly Schwedhelm, MSN, RN, discussing Omaha hospitals supporting the NBU during Ebola
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Kevin Schwedhelm, MSN, RN, spouse of Shelly Schwedhelm, MSN, RN, discussing Omaha hospitals supporting the NBU during Ebola
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24 April 2023
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Kevin Schwedhelm: [Y]eah, just being there, I mean, we could—knowing as much about it as I did and being in healthcare as much as I would, we'd have more—for us it was more questions about staffing and how do you staff hospitals and how's the team doing? And can they really work for 12 hours in a pap or be masked up for 12 hours? Because that's hard work in and of itself. So, I don't know, we spent a lot of time talking about it. We have a hot tub at home. So, we'd sit in the hot tub and we'd chat about this and that and what was going on and what she needed, and ,you know, I said—we even talked about if you need my folks to come here and we were trying to figure out how to get credentials for a CHI employee to be able to support that and obviously I had many folks that would volunteer to do that if the Med Center’s folks were getting too tired. So again, just because of my role, it seemed like there was just a lot that we talked about and just walked through different scenarios. If we needed to, we could do it, and that type of thing. So, we kind of still focused on the work more than we did kind of the emotional drain of it all.
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