After the end of the year holidays, the cold shower! Since returning from vacation, Caroline Deforge, 52, liberal nurse in Joué-lès-Tours (Indre-et-Loire), is faced with the increasingly frequent aggressiveness of people seeking to be tested for Covid-19.
“With the start of the school year, it is chaos. My phone keeps ringing she breathes. Many people fall back on nurses’ offices because of overcrowding of laboratories and pharmacies. It’s complicated to make people understand that we also have to take care of our sick patients, who have infusions, bags, insulin pumps. “
“They spit on us”
Like many of her colleagues, the liberal nurse fits into her schedule PCR or antigen tests, in addition to his usual tours. Last Monday, she put a swab in the nose of eighteen people at home. But she cannot answer all the requests.
“We applauded the nurses two years ago. Now we’re being spit on because we don’t respond fast enough, she regrets. The instructions change all the time, screening is poorly organized, people are on edge and we are insulted… ” And then there is ” the panic “, note Caroline Deforge. “People want to be tested because they have a runny nose …”
“Absorb the anger”
The liberal nurse says she is exhausted. “Since the start of the epidemic, we have always worked, at the beginning with fear in our stomachs because we had no masks, she recalls. We have chosen a profession where we absorb people’s anxieties, sorrows and difficulties. Today we also have to absorb impatience and anger. Our resistance is starting to weaken. “
Especially since there is no shortage of work. In hospitals, elective operations have been postponed due to the resumption of the epidemic. Several patients were therefore sent home. And it is the liberal nurses who must take care of it. “However, these are often patients who need heavy monitoring at home”, says Caroline Deforge.
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