Dartmouth General Hospital nurse Teri Pottie remembers the wild ride of adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic “virtually overnight.” Staff set up walls enclosing every bed, put plexiglass around the nurses’ stations, separated chairs to respect physical distancing, and limited the intake of patients and visitors. “There were a lot of changes to the look of our department, the procedures, the assignments nurses have, the responsibilities,” she told Global News, still in her scrubs at the hospital’s emergency department, where she works as the clinical lead nurse. “It was a trial-and-error type thing.
Thank God for everybody that works here, everybody came to us with ideas and suggestions … they adapted extremely quick.” Nova Scotia is reaching