{"id":1319460,"date":"2020-04-15T16:33:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T22:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=995684"},"modified":"2020-04-15T16:33:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T22:33:48","slug":"local-nurses-working-the-frontline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/local-nurses-working-the-frontline\/","title":{"rendered":"Local nurses working the frontline"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"856\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/GRHNurses-rct-041620-1-1024x856.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/GRHNurses-rct-041620-1-1024x856.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/GRHNurses-rct-041620-1-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/GRHNurses-rct-041620-1-768x642.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/04\/GRHNurses-rct-041620-1.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><figcaption><strong>Grand River Health Clinical Coordinators Tara Seeman, Amy Campagna, and Jess Menu help keep the staff and the community safe.<\/strong><br \/><em><\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>For Grand River Health clinical coordinators Amy Campagna, Jessica Menu and Tara Seeman battling the coronavirus pandemic has been a group effort.<\/p>\n<p>Although they never work the same shift, the trio are in constant contact, conferring with one another on ideas to help the staff and care for patients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the hardest part for the three of us is that we are never working side-by-side. We are kind of a solo entity when we are here with a bunch of support from admin, which makes things a lot easier for us,\u201d Seeman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody has rallied since the beginning of COVID-19, from administration all the way throughout the entire organization. It\u2019s just been phenomenal to work with this amazing group of people,\u201d Campagna said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\">\n<div class=\"row gspi-donation gspi-donation-mobile p-0\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/PI-logo-white.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/PI-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/pi-banner-paypal.jpg)\" class=\"col-xl-8 p-3 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/donate\/?utm_source=article&amp;utm_medium=website&amp;utm_campaign=donation&amp;utm_term=&amp;utm_content=mid-article\">Donate<\/a><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Menu said since the outbreak of COVID-19 things have changed a little bit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe kind of triage phone calls as a triage nurse for the COVID line. Just trying to help keep people safe and staying home if possible. Really digging into what is going on with them to determine if they do need immediate medical care or if they can wait to go to a respiratory clinic or maintain their symptoms at home until further notice,\u201d Menu said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been helping educate staff on how to handle each patient that comes in with COVID symptoms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The coordinator on shift tracks all tests done through the respiratory clinic and ER, keeping track of negatives and positives, and keeping admin and incident command informed each night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe pretty much go around and help comfort people, because for some people this is a stressful time for them, worried about their families, each other and coworkers,\u201d Menu said.<\/p>\n<p>As the emergency manager, Campagna has been in charge of writing new policy for COVID-19, personal protection equipment and PAPR training.<\/p>\n<p>Powered Air Purifying Respirator, or PAPR, are being used by nurses and staff to protect against COVID-19 droplet transmission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI help coordinate the respiratory clinic, minimizing the access to the hospital, so we limit exposure to staff and patients,\u201d Campagna said.<\/p>\n<p>Campagna also helped put together the new COVID-19 board the hospital has established, and is responsible for obtaining supplies, and limiting their use in case of a surge in cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe effort that has been made by these three ladies as well as the staff and Grand River, we basically have turned the hospital on its head, redid policy, redid everything we do in a very short period of time,\u201d hospital spokesperson Annick Pruett said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorking together to make sure the flow on the hospital side and the drilling Tara, Jessica and Amy have done with the staff on how to put on PPE properly, and how to safely transport a patient.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>BEFORE THE OUTBREAK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On a typical day as clinical coordinators Campagna, Menu and Seeman are responsible for overseeing the 18-20 nurses, working with staffing issues or calls-ins, helping in the department with the most need, answering questions, helping with pharmaceutical needs and coordinating admissions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor example if the Emergency Room is busy do we need to stop and help triage patients, do we have any admissions that need to be done,\u201d Menu said.<\/p>\n<p>Working noon to midnight, Campagna and Seeman work one week on and one week off schedules, opposite of each other with weekends on call.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hardest part is that we are never here side by side together,\u201d Seeman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe kind of support each other over the phone, bouncing questions off of each other of what to do next, or ask what they would do in this situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For all three, nursing has been a calling to help people in a time of need.<\/p>\n<p>Working in the nursing field since 2003 and at Grand River Health since 2008, Campagna, who grew up on the Front Range, said a friend inspired her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just love to take care of people, so that\u2019s why I became a nurse,\u201d Campagna said.<\/p>\n<p>After having her first child, Menu, who grew up in Rifle, said she found the CNA program at GRH.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the nurses inspired me, and I wanted more, I wanted to be able to help people when they are at their most critical moment. Make them feel better about a situation that is not really ideal for them,\u201d Menu said.<\/p>\n<p>Menu decided to pursue nursing and has been on the staff at Grand River Health for the last six years.<\/p>\n<p>Born and raised in Glenwood Springs, Seeman has been a nurse for 17 years with the last nine at Grand River.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI realized as a young adult that I always wanted to be around people, and realized I wanted to start taking care of people,\u201d Seeman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I thought OK, I\u2019ll try nursing school, and it is what I have loved ever since.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The one thing that keeps the trio going through the tough times is the support from the community and their co-workers and staff.<\/p>\n<p>Campagna, Menu and Seeman all said that everyone at Grand River is like family,&nbsp; with a drive and phenomenal culture to care for one another and the community.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are here to make people feel better, see them in a holistic manner. That includes their emotional, psychological and physical health. If one of those parts is missing then I think for every nurse it is bothersome, and so we try to look at all aspects of their care,\u201d Seeman said.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"mailto:kmills@postindependent.com\">kmills@postindependent.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/local-nurses-working-the-frontline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grand River Health Clinical Coordinators Tara Seeman, Amy Campagna, and Jess Menu help keep the staff and the community safe. For Grand River Health clinical coordinators Amy Campagna, Jessica Menu and Tara Seeman battling the coronavirus pandemic has been a group effort. Although they never work the same shift, the trio are in constant contact, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1319460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-04 02:13:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1319460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1319460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1319460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1319460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}