Abstract
Two years into the arrival of COVID, we have witnessed the impact of this virus to our lives. COVID initially created chaos, since our knowledge of the virus was very limited. Health care workers experienced the isolation of everyone else but had the added stress from work. Health care workers were dealing with the unknown, taking care of the ill, often with limited equipment available for protection. Family members of patients were unable to stay with their loved ones and we could see, hear and feel their fear. This created for many a moral injury (a type of psychological distress one feels when unable to deliver the normal type of care). Then we added in our own concern of bringing COVID home to our family. Even as the initial emergency subsided, the environment never returned to ‘normal,’ and it probably will not. Too many nurses are still struggling mentally with fall-out from the pandemic.
