Advice/help regarding ICU Worker

[tometoyou6]

Hi,

I am hoping to reach out and get some advice regarding my mum. My mum works on ICU, she is in her 50's, asthmatic (on a couple of inhalers) and has colitis (on meds). My mum is the strongest person I know, very straight talking, direct, realist and level headed. She has worked for the NHS for 30+ years, mostly on infectious diseases, HDU and ICU. Thus, she has sufficient experience in dealing with critically ill patients and isn't easily phased. A risk assessment was done on a number of staff from the ward a few days ago and yesterday she was told she would need to be moved as she is too high risk to continue on ICU (now Covid-19 ward). She is yet to be told where she will be moved too and is still currently on the ward. Between yesterday and today, I have received a number of phone calls from her in the midst of having anxiety attacks, in tears and her saying its all becoming too much/too real. Like I say, this is very out of character for her and I am just trying to seek some genuine advice of where to go next. I want to just say not to return to work, but its not as easy as that. Contact GP? Occ Health? Isolate? Push to be moved? Anything else?

This is how many medics are feeling right now. I work in the NHS and anxiety and depression is very high
She should contact her employee assistance programme and speak to her manager about how she is coping

Surely she needs to talk to her line manager and get moved wards ASAP.

As other have said, she must contact her line manager, and, I say, contact Occy Health as a matter of urgency.

Everyone should be grateful for the years she's put in. Finding her line in the sand now means she needs support. There'll be plenty of non Front Line Covid facing roles she could be moved to.

I feel her pain, I'm 57, Covid facing but in CT scanning but our exposure is way less than an ICU nurse.

Her mental health comes first.