ROCKLEDGE, Fla. – Fifteen nurses from Rockledge Regional Medical Center traveled to Massachusetts late last week to help handle the state’s surge of coronavirus patients.
Kristine Smith and Solly Salzwedel both work as registered nurses at Rockledge Regional Medical Center and volunteered to work at Morton Hospital, where they are handling coronavirus cases exclusively. “What I’m seeing up north here is a lot of very sick people,” Smith said. “They are quite ill.
We don’t have that influx quite yet. We’ve been lucky so far in our area in Brevard County.” "I have not seen such a large number of very sick patients with nurses and doctors just struggling, using all their resources to try to make people better," Salzwedel added.