"Michelle Thomas, a registered nurse and a manager of the emergency department at a Tucson, Arizona, hospital, resigned three weeks ago after hitting a wall.
"There was never a time that we could just kind of take a breath," Thomas said Tuesday. "I hit that point … I can't do this anymore. I'm so just tapped out."
She helped other nurses cope with being alone in rooms with dying patients and holding mobile phones so family members could say their final goodbyes.
"It's like incredibly taxing and traumatizing," said Thomas, who is unsure if she will ever return to nursing."
I cannot find her anywhere around tuscon...... This is a national post, if untrue would be awesome to reveal.
This is a national database of certification. https://www.nursys.com/ In theory all US certified nurses are here. It won't give an up-to-the-minute status of course, but it's a start. So here is Michelle Thomas.https://www.nursys.com/LQC/LQCSearch.aspx
That's interesting. Feels like I've read that somewhere before. Deja vu
It's a common name. There are probably a surprising number of ERs around Tucson if you include urgent care centers, and the ones sponsored by hospitals definitely have "emergency room" labels.