WATWB: Mother – Daughter Nursing Team Goes to New York

May 29, 2020 by JoAnna 8 Comments

In the first week of April, Ona Onyia and her mother, Uchenna Onyia-Murphy, traveled 1200 miles from Arkansas to Elmhurst Hospital in New York “the epicenter of the epicenter” of COVID 19.  They saw how overwhelmed the hospital staff was and wanted to help. They also wanted to learn as much as they could in case things got bad back home.

They each work 12 hour shifts, Onyia overnight, and her mother during the day, sometimes for six days straight.

“It has been mentally and physically exhausting, but rewarding in so many ways,” Onyia says. “…..I feel like I can work anywhere after this.”

In spite of the hardships, they both extended their contracts for another six weeks.

Thank you to all nurses, doctors, and medical care workers who go where they are needed most, even in their own hometowns or their own homes.

You can read more about Ona and Uchenna in this story from CNN

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