How the Public Can Help Frontline Nurses Battling Covid

Brown wants the public to help get the word out to nurses and healthcare workers to help them keep going. She produced the video with her own money as a way to give back to nurses who are fighting this fight.

Nurses and healthcare workers are holding on to whatever stamina they have left in the fight against a virus that just keeps growing. Confirmed cases keep rising as the crush of incoming patients continues to strain hospitals. And those at the front lines of battle are becoming pandemic-weary, stretched to the mental breaking point especially having patients die alone. Brown was a nurse during the AIDS crisis and although it certainly wasn't the magnitude of the current crisis, she knows they are above burnout.

The video series features 18 national experts talking about how to maintain balance (and sanity) during these drawn-out pandemic times. It includes presentations by an infectious-disease physician, stress relief experts, a nurse practitioner on hypnotherapy, and other experts talking about mindfulness, meditation, sleep and much more. Tiffani Zalinski, a registered nurse from UC San Diego, said the videos provided critical advice and a welcome, supportive perspective on the relief needed for those who fight the pandemic every day. The video series really does help mitigate the damaging effects of what we're going through. It's so important to try and maintain some sense of balance during these trying times.

The Covid-19 Survival Guide is available at EmpoweredNurses.org/Covid.