FILE - Clinicians work on intubating a COVID-19 patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Lake Charles Memorial Hospital on August 10, 2021, in Lake Charles, Louisiana. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) 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.