On International Day of Nursing, a health care warrior in Dubai reveals how she copes with her call of duty. Reem Yousef from Lebanon, young mother of a nine-month-old baby and sole breadwinner of her family, works as the Emergency Nurse Manager at the Emirates Specialty Hospital in the Dubai Health Care City.
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00:00As a nurse manager in the emergency, of course, we are receiving patients, all sorts of patients,
00:05not only COVID patients, but also receiving the emergency patients. So my duty is to make sure
00:11how to receive patients, where to allocate them, who should take care of them, and of course making
00:17sure that the patients are safe. My main inspirations are actually my parents. My
00:23parents, both of them are physicians, and they didn't want me to go into medicine. They actually
00:28wanted me to be a nurse, and I remember very well my mom was telling me, both of them, but mainly my
00:33mom, she was telling me, Reem, there are enough doctors in the world, but there are not enough
00:39nurses. So you are needed more than anyone else, and doctors depend on you. Working in the emergency
00:46on its own is overwhelming, on its own, without the COVID. We're used to this. I've been in this,
00:54as I said, for 10 years, so I'm used to coping with this by being calm, patient, and dealing
01:01with situations very calmly. This is very important, the emergency. Now to add the COVID-19,
01:11I'm not gonna lie, I am always anxious and scared of many things. One, people not listening to the
01:19health authorities, to their guidance, and to us also, healthcare professionals, telling them
01:26not to go out, you know, everything what we are trying to tell them, and to take it
01:30seriously, because this is the only way to spread the virus. Second most for is my daughter
01:37and my husband. Since you already mentioned that I'm the only breadwinner in the family,
01:43I'm always worried that, God forbid, if anything happens to me, if I fall sick,
01:47if I get the virus, I won't be able to provide for my family. I won't be able to be with them,
01:56even, and what's even worse is that possibly giving the virus to them, if I get it by any
02:03chance. So I'm trying my best, not just me, the whole team, to take all our precautions,
02:12all the proper measurements, you know, from wearing the PPEs, sterilizing properly,
02:18before going home, so I can be able to hold my baby and my husband, mainly. So, of course,
02:26we have measures to take. The main message I want to give to the world on International Nurses Day
02:31is that help us help you, please. In order for us to help you and care for your loved ones,
02:39you need to also listen to us and stay at home and help us not spread the disease.
02:44We also have families, I have a baby, I have a husband, I have a mom, my colleagues, they have
02:51also their families with them, who are also at highest to getting the virus. So, just like we
02:58are spending time away from our families to care for you and for your loved ones, we need you to
03:04help us to do so. We need to achieve it, you need to help us conquer and overcome this pandemic.
03:12And I want everyone to just remember this time and appreciate the nurses. Unfortunately, nurses
03:19are underpaid, underappreciated, all over the world, I'm not going to just talk about here,
03:24everywhere. So people need to understand and know our importance and how crucial it is for
03:32the nurses to be at the hospital. If it wasn't for us, who would take care of everyone?