{"id":11376,"date":"2020-07-22T10:09:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T14:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/?p=11376"},"modified":"2020-11-11T16:37:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T21:37:47","slug":"dispatches-from-the-front-lines-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/dispatches-from-the-front-lines-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispatches From the Front Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since the pandemic\u2019s earliest days, Monmouth University alumni have been engaged in the fight against COVID-19 on a number of fronts. Five of them shared their stories with us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1. Nurse practitioner Kristopher Jackson \u201909 takes you inside a New York City ICU<\/a> during the peak of the outbreak. <\/h3>\n\n\n

\u201cNo amount of experience can prepare you for having to tell someone that their loved one will likely die alone because it is unsafe for anyone to be by their side.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read Kristopher\u2019s story.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2. Medical social worker Lauren Parks \u201916M discusses the challenges of helping COVID-19 patients <\/a>at one Jersey Shore hospital. <\/h3>\n\n\n

\u201cNine out of 10 patients will still need oxygen, or a walker when they\u2019re discharged home; some need hospital beds and in-home physical and occupational therapy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read Lauren\u2019s story.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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3. EMT Paul Haines \u201918 describes what it\u2019s like working in a COVID-19 hot zone<\/a>.<\/h3>\n\n\n

\u201cIn my first week of deployment I helped roughly a hundred patients. About 10% of them died. In my previous experiences as an EMT, less than 1% of my patients died each year. So it was shocking.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read Paul\u2019s story.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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4. Social services director Nairee Rodriguez \u201918M describes how COVID-19 has affected life inside one rehab and long-term care facility.<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n

\u201cI kind of hold my breath in the morning until we get our reports in to see who has passed. It\u2019s been really rough because some of our staff has been with us for 25 to 40 years and they get very attached to the patients, especially those who have been with us for a long time.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read Nairee\u2019s story.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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5. Dr. Jeffrey Miskoff \u201993, a pulmonologist, is taking on COVID-19 in the ICU<\/a> and on social media.<\/h3>\n\n\n

\u201cWhen every case is COVID and nothing but COVID for a month straight, it starts to give rise to anxiety, and I think there will probably be some PTSD from those who worked closely with very sick patients.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read Dr. Miskoff\u2019s story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since the pandemic\u2019s earliest days, Monmouth University alumni have been engaged in the fight against COVID-19 on a number of fronts. Five of them shared their stories with us. 1. Nurse practitioner Kristopher Jackson \u201909 takes you inside a New York City ICU during the peak of the outbreak. \u201cNo amount of experience can prepare […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":11461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"image_focus":"","hide_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"thumbnail":"\"\"","catString":"Uncategorized","issue":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11376"}],"version-history":[{"count":62,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11532,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11376\/revisions\/11532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}