Schmidt shares pandemic experiences of nurses

AONL member Anne Schmidt, DNP, APRN, shared the stories of medical-surgical nurses caring for COVID-19 patients at a New England hospital in a recent article in Generations. The first-person accounts reflected the pandemic’s course from an unnerving and unexpected experience to part of routine practice, turning front-line nurses into experienced providers of palliative care. Schmidt, a nurse executive in Rhode Island, ended the article with a list of lessons learned. (Generations article, 4/27/22)