What’s it really like in a COVID unit? A Texas nurse tells us.

Joanna Hernandez first poured out her thoughts and emotions to her Instagram followers after a long day at the hospital. She is a traveling nurse and currently working at a south Texas hospital where soon after arriving, she was assigned to the COVID unit. Hernandez speaks candidly about the struggles her patients experience, trying to reassure their worried relatives, and what she did with one elderly woman suffering from severe symptoms. This assignment in the COVID unit has changed her career trajectory, as well. She’s now considering taking a job in New York or New Jersey where the number of infections are the country’s worst.