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ambulances coming and going patients going back to the nursing home.
救護車來來往往的病人要回養老院。
New ones coming trance result to follow its not here because we're in a rural community.
新的來了恍惚的結果跟隨它不在這裡,因為我們是在農村社區。
We know a lot of our patients.
我們認識很多的病人。
I personally have had three patients from the nursing home.
我本人就有三個養老院的病人。
Dying thistles, just unlike anything I've ever seen.
奄奄一息的鐵蒺藜,就跟我見過的任何東西都不一樣。
So here we are, living graft in North Dakota.
所以我們在這裡,生活在北達科他州的嫁接。
Okay, this is our hospital Unity Medical Center.
好了,這是我們的醫院團結醫療中心。
Space is here for the ER.
空間是給急診室的。
You know, we hope for the best every day that starts.
你知道,我們希望最好的每一天開始。
But you just don't know what the day is gonna bring him.
但你就是不知道今天會給他帶來什麼。
Amy Embryonic.
Amy Embryonic.
I have been a nurse for 30 years.
我做了30年的護士。
My name is Mary Jo Shop.
我的名字是Mary Jo Shop。
I'm a registered nurse.
我是一個註冊護士。
Things have really amped up around here.
這裡的事情真的很熱鬧。
We have had to make makeshift rooms for patients in the chapel family room pretty much wherever we can cram them.
我們不得不在禮拜堂家屬室幾乎在任何能塞進病人的地方為他們做臨時房間。
We've had a really hard time getting patients transferred out to our usual receiving facilities because they're also full patient that we wouldn't ordinarily keep here in our small rural community hospital.
我們很難把病人轉到我們通常的接收機構,因為他們也是滿員的病人,我們通常不會在我們這個小的農村社區醫院裡保留。
We've had to keep.
我們必須保持。
We're now swamped with the our patients coming, and there's nowhere to put them.
我們現在被我們的病人淹沒了,沒有地方安置他們。
And we're running out of stuff.
而且我們的東西都用完了。
It's been quite a busy day.
今天是相當忙碌的一天。
I have spoke to two families, um, extensively about end of life.
我已經跟兩個家庭談過了,嗯,關於生命終結的廣泛。
We've had deaths here.
我們這裡有死亡。
They are members of the community that, you know, we know it's heartbreaking because I am.
他們是社區的成員,你知道,我們知道這是令人心碎的,因為我是。
A lot of these people are my friends, and I know personally and then to see their family members here at the end of life and they and it's not a normal, grieving and dying process.
很多這些人都是我的朋友,我個人也知道,然後看到他們的家人在這裡,在生命的盡頭,他們和它不是一個正常的,悲傷和死亡的過程。
We talked about it months and months ago and how he'd handle it, But you're never really fully emotionally or psychologically prepared for the onslaught, but I think a large portion of the population in our area doesn't really quite get it yet.
我們幾個月前就討論過這個問題,以及他如何處理它,但你永遠不會真正在情感上或心理上為衝擊做好充分準備,但我認為我們地區的大部分人口還沒有真正完全得到它。
Staffing in a rural facility has always been a bit of a challenge.
農村設施的人員配置一直是個難題。
We are a skeleton crew to begin with, and now we are slowly one by one, Catching cove it I'm post covert about a week and a half, and I still am exhausted when you are in something that you feel like there will be no end and it is like your worst nightmare ever.
我們一開始就是一個骨幹團隊,現在我們慢慢一個一個的,Catching cove it I'm post covert about a week and a half, and I still am exhausted when you are in something that you feel like there will be no end and it is like your worst nightmare ever.
I think we all go home and we have nightmares and you dream hovel dreams, Um, that colleagues were going off and the people are falling and that you can't get to them.
我想我們回家後都會做噩夢,你會做噩夢,嗯,同事們都要走了,人都倒下了,你卻找不到他們。
None of us ever came nurses and thought that we would do anything like this.
我們都沒有來過護士,也沒有想過自己會做這樣的事情。
That ends my shift.
我的工作到此結束。
I am actually feeling guilty, leaving the hospital half hour late.
其實我很內疚,晚了半小時離開醫院。
But today is my son's birthday.
但今天是我兒子的生日。
And I always put my family on the back burner.
而我總是把家庭放在後面。
And today, as much as I tried, I still couldn't get out of here on time.
而今天,雖然我很努力,但還是不能按時離開這裡。
And one of my patients that we transferred back to the nursing home End of life, I believe, has already passed away.
而我的一個病人,我們轉回了養老院 我相信,生命的盡頭,已經去世了。
Just ended my day, huh?
剛剛結束了我的一天,是吧?
We have in the hospital back home now.
我們已經在醫院回家了。
9 p.m. Here.
晚上9時給你
And it's been a long day.
而這是漫長的一天。
I feel exhausted.
我覺得很累。
Um, I feel like crying a lot.
嗯,我覺得想哭了很多。
Um, you know, you just feel like you want it to end.
嗯,你知道,你只是覺得 你想結束。