#DearNurses

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	<title>#DearNurses</title>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2021 22:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Stories Spotlight Area</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2020 16:49:30 +0000</pubDate>

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#DearNurses&#38;nbsp;

Discover the stories behind the masks.

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	&#38;nbsp; Read the Letter ︎


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Dear Nurses,

You washed their faces and read their eyes.
Looks always fell somewhere between scared and courageous, you reported. When wheelchairs squeak and heels click, you serve a common goal: To heal people. 

But 2020 didn’t see a lot of healing.&#38;nbsp; The stories of people who come into the ICU - aka Covidland?&#38;nbsp; They rarely leave, you say. 

But you persist, because you’re essential AF. Because, “I am here for you” is how you operate, how you live and how you love. You read your patient’s get well cards from strangers, friends--Oh Dinnerplate, he mouthed. 

For that, we yearn for a time in the not-too-distance future where you can eat bread pudding with your patients.

Whether it was making signs, singing songs, sending lifesaver candies or delivering free pizza, we know we can’t repay you for your service. 

You’ve got every right to be tired, too. 

“We’re going to be ok”, you say. 

One day soon, we’ll be able see COVID from a 3,000 footview -- fewer hallway sprints, fewer tears and fewer facetime goodbyes. 

Until then, thank you for your stories. 
Written by RX Fogarty

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Read RX’s letter a year after the project - here

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		<title>Introduction Text</title>
				
		<link>https://nurses.dearworld.org/Introduction-Text</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2020 16:49:33 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>DearWorld.org and the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses

In honor of 2020 being designated International Year of the Nurse and the Midwife, DearWorld.org partnered with the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, AACN, to tell the stories of 39 nurses from COVID-19 units across the state of Louisiana.


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		<title>Donate</title>
				
		<link>https://nurses.dearworld.org/Donate</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2020 16:49:34 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>Support this initiative by making a donation to DearWorld.org and the stories of nurses.

	
100% of the money raised from nurses.dearworld.org will be used to continue to fund the stories of nurses during this crisis and beyond.
	
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		<title>FAQs &#38; Credits</title>
				
		<link>https://nurses.dearworld.org/FAQs-Credits</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2020 17:27:59 +0000</pubDate>

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Crediting Instructions for Journalists and Content Creators:
PRESS RELEASE

ASSETS &#38;amp; CREDITING INSTRUCTIONS:
Access media assets for each nurse at https://nurses.dearworld.org including the documentary, portraits, first-person letters and PS Content, such as archival family photos. (each nurse’s letter and portrait can be found by clicking on their image from the home page.)

Photos and stories are being made available with broad permission of use with no requests for licensing or compensation from DearWorld.org. You need not get prior written approval unless required by your organization’s protocols. The stories may be used in part or in their entirety. Photos should be credited as follows: DearWorld.org / Daymon Gardner.&#38;nbsp; 

Please email hello@dearworld.org if you need formal waivers and releases signed for your media organization.

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Production Credits:Sponsor and underwriter: American Association of Critical Care Nurses, DearWorld.org
Founder and Director: RX Fogarty
Documentary Director: Benjamin Reece
Documentary Co-Directors: David Reece, Abby Vo

Directors of Photography: David Reece, Chris Alcazar
Producers: Abby Vo, Patricia Moscardo, Miranda Palsson, Greta Cross, Lucy Calderon
Documentary Editor: Alex Wiltz
Assistant Camera Operator: Chris Alcazar

Crew: Andres Ballesteros, Giancarlo D'Agostaro, Blaine Billings

Principal Photographer: Daymon Gardner

Facilitators/Interviewers: RX Fogarty
Writers: Sofia Bodniza, Sarah Jane Roy, Bruna Nessif, Amanda Sullivan, Andra Castillo, Pam Jenkins
COVID compliance: Ochsner Health
Interview venue: Ochsner Clinical Simulation &#38;amp; Patient Safety Center
Special Thanks to: Available Lighting, VER, Beau Baudier, Ralph Madison, Matt Bigelow︎︎︎︎

Frequently Asked Questions
What precautions were taken to ensure the safety of the crew &#38;amp; nurses?DearWorld.org, AACN, and the nurse subjects minimized exposure by:

Filming in the simulation center of the Ochsner Medical Center, This building is used exclusively for medical professional training and no COVID-19 patients have been inside. All crew passed daily wellness checks before being allowed to enter the building, And all crew utilized PPE in the same manner that hospital staff use PPE.
Why was time taken for storytelling during the COVID-19 crisis?#DearNurses was created to share the stories of nurses who dedicated their lives to saving others.&#38;nbsp;All of the nurses who participated volunteered time on their days off to do so.
Who was behind this partnership?The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses underwrote the production cost of the collection.&#38;nbsp;DearWorld.org used 100% of the proceeds to pay crew fair and competitiverates,&#38;nbsp;as well as for travel expenses, equiment rental, and transportation needs.&#38;nbsp;Thanks you to Beau Baudier for donating crew housing for the duration of the project.
Why New Orleans &#38;amp; Ochsner Medical Center?DearWorld.org began as Dear World New Orleans, so we have more relationships there than any other &#38;nbsp;city, allowing us to complete the portrait collection in a beautiful and safe manner. &#38;nbsp;Thank you to Ochsner Medical Center for hosting us, Tulane, Touro, and University Medical Center&#38;nbsp;for sending nurses from your hospitals to participate.

Can I abridge the nurses’ letters in a written story?
Yes. Nurse stories do not need to be published in full and direct quotes may be pulled.
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		<link>https://nurses.dearworld.org/Instagram</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2020 16:49:34 +0000</pubDate>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2020 16:49:35 +0000</pubDate>

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contact us
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		<title>Share Your #DearNurses story</title>
				
		<link>https://nurses.dearworld.org/Share-Your-DearNurses-story</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2020 22:06:41 +0000</pubDate>

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Share Your #DearNurses Story
Follow the guidlines below and post your #DearNurses story to your social media accounts. Tag @dearworld, #dearworld, #dearnurses for a chance to be featured on our social media.

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What’s a Dear World Story?


	Portrait + Ink on skin messageTaken in your home or place of work (safely)Tell your story with a caption in the spirit of a short letter, formatted as:Dear World,[your story]Sincerely,[your message, as displayed in the portrait]P.S.[your bonus content highlighting the personal impact for you in telling this story, supporting snapshots, behind-the-scenes anecdotes, etc.]
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		<title>All Stories</title>
				
		<link>https://nurses.dearworld.org/All-Stories</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2020 16:49:36 +0000</pubDate>

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	He Mouthed “Oh, Dinner Plate”&#38;nbsp;Featuring Jamie Taylor
&#60;img width="1333" height="2000" width_o="1333" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a4bc53fa1218897c2c6feadd26c4787df205056f52833ec44e78831a54dadf70/rxrodgers_travis_NORMALSCHEMA1321.jpg" data-mid="75642689" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a4bc53fa1218897c2c6feadd26c4787df205056f52833ec44e78831a54dadf70/rxrodgers_travis_NORMALSCHEMA1321.jpg" /&#62;
	We Got Blown Out, But Thanks For The PizzaFeaturing Travis Rodgers
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	I Hope We Have More TimeFeaturing Blaire Barrios Green

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	The Heart Rate Went 60, 40, 10...Featuring Heather Rouyer&#38;nbsp;

&#60;img width="1333" height="2000" width_o="1333" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4168e766c4e3a3b8de631927a9e3557b0287215282ce7f00b1507ac622051975/rxchad_NORMALSCHEMA056.jpg" data-mid="75345601" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4168e766c4e3a3b8de631927a9e3557b0287215282ce7f00b1507ac622051975/rxchad_NORMALSCHEMA056.jpg" /&#62;
	A Click of the HeelsFeaturing Chad Anderson&#38;nbsp;

&#60;img width="1333" height="2000" width_o="1333" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e2863080f45436a43c5d2f13e8dd7195b3926bb797f177460c803c2c8a184a5f/rxnickel_rachel_NORMALSCHEMA2182.jpg" data-mid="75345438" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e2863080f45436a43c5d2f13e8dd7195b3926bb797f177460c803c2c8a184a5f/rxnickel_rachel_NORMALSCHEMA2182.jpg" /&#62;
	Are Y’all Ready for a Dance Party?Featuring Rachel Nickel&#38;nbsp;
&#60;img width="1333" height="2000" width_o="1333" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/26b5f41d266ff8e8f99782744563b08d032d965ef0178b2a28d24cf746e9c8c6/RXchantrell_NORMALSCHEMA064.jpg" data-mid="74992188" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/26b5f41d266ff8e8f99782744563b08d032d965ef0178b2a28d24cf746e9c8c6/RXchantrell_NORMALSCHEMA064.jpg" /&#62;
	Long Suffering
Featuring Chantrel Reimoneq Gauthier

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	We Read Eyes
Featuring Tara Porter
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	Actions You’ll Never Find In A Handbook
Featuring Dawn Pevey

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	enilas lamron&#38;nbsp; deen I
Featuring Dr. Nigel Girgrah
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	What Is Essential?
Featuring Rebecca Barnes
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	The Nurses Gave Me Cake
Featuring Tracey Moffatt
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	I Washed Their Faces
Featuring Katie Gage
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	Essential AF
Featuring Cassidy Pocorello
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	I Don’t Want to Scare Them
Featuring Ashante Hogan
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Featuring Debbie Ford

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Featuring Ashleigh Conerly

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	If I Can’t Be A Nurse, How Could I Breathe?
Featuring Lauren Rage
&#60;img width="1333" height="2000" width_o="1333" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b3dfd20caa5f478cc14730e5131b0dac1df9fd954c38b73f7968199c97bc3441/rxherosaladino_louise_NORMALSCHEMA0969.jpg" data-mid="72892040" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b3dfd20caa5f478cc14730e5131b0dac1df9fd954c38b73f7968199c97bc3441/rxherosaladino_louise_NORMALSCHEMA0969.jpg" /&#62;
	It’s In Their Eyes
Featuring Louise Saladino
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	FOMOM
Featuring Kala Gaudet
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	“I Am Here For You”
Featuring Krystal Rosette

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	Report Back Here at 6:30 AM Tomorrow
Featuring Amy Ott
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	I Always Knew You’d Be A Nun or Nurse
Featuring Sarah Owens


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	The 3,000’ View
Featuring Catherine Smith
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	“Hey, Are You Short Of Breath, Or Do You Think It’s My Anxiety?”
Featuring Blaire Guidry
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	We’re Still Human
Featuring William Quinn

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	I’ve Never Cried Like That About A Patient
Featuring Sarah Wells&#38;nbsp;

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	You Don’t Want to See COVIDLAND
Featuring Katie O’Neill &#38;nbsp;

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	Not Ready For That
Featuring  Fiona Winterbottom&#38;nbsp;
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	Hallway Sprints
Featuring  Julie Hess&#38;nbsp;

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	The Bread Pudding Promise
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	Best Lifesaver I’ll Never Eat
Featuring  Melissa Howard

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	We’re Gonna Be OK
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	COVID Took My Breath Away
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	Courage, Dear Heart
Featuring  Jessy Shaw&#38;nbsp;


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Featuring&#38;nbsp; Chariz Montminy&#38;nbsp;

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Featuring&#38;nbsp; Ervin Aranas

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		<title>999 - Robert's Letter One Year Later</title>
				
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	Dear World,Days were unmistakably strange and uncertain two months after the world changed.︎It was May and I spent hours on the phone with my attorney and with the team who would eventually create Dear Nurses. One by one we made phone calls that began with some version of ‘if you want to do this, take a night to sleep on it before you sign the waiver’. The gist of the waiver? 
You won’t hold me liable if you get sick. 
As morning came over a series of days, people who I admire and trust began replying: “I’m in.” 

Our whispers got louder: could this be once in a century work? You gotta realize most artists--if they’re honest with themselves--yearn to be loved for something they create. 

I wasn’t thinking about the nurses, I was thinking about myself. 

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It’s day one and a nurse is telling me how she started to get a shortness of breath towards the end of her COVID experience.&#38;nbsp; “I don’t scare easily. I’m a nurse, you know,” she said.

“But in the back of my mind, I had decided that I was going to take care of everybody and God was going to take care of me.”

In another room in the hospital, our video team worked to re-enact some of the situations nurses faced. 

We reconvened around lunch and all of us looked at each other. 

This is special.

Nurses expressed a spectrum of truths: gratitude, resilience, fear, love, camaraderie. Nearly 40 nurses participated. 

One doctor sat, too. 

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A year later, we still point fingers and shrug shoulders. We distance and we don’t. The American way, I suppose. 

What’s uniquely American? The diversity of our sentiment--and our stories. 

Today we release a short documentary from that week in May. It features six of our portrait subjects: 

Jaime 
Ashante
Chantrelle
Lindsay 
Lauren

When we showed it to them, they shared a mixture of emotions. Some didn’t like the sound of their voice or the way they looked. Some loved it and some thought we could have gone deeper. But I take heart in each of them saying: 

“It felt true.”

We should measure a story’s success in units of truth--not clicks. 

“It is not a testimonial if you don’t tell anybody,” one nurse said. 


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I also would like to acknowledge that while our documentary presents the experiences of some nurses, they are not the experiences of all nurses. They are also not speaking on behalf of AACN or their hospitals. 

A significant difference from May is the introduction of vaccinations. Some of our nurses talked about how excited they were for the vaccine, and that they just finished dose one and were gearing up for the second. Those nurses see the vaccine as a beginning to an end. Others were a little hesitant, saying that they will hold off and see how other people take it before taking it themselves. 
The overall feeling was a sense of hope whether they were taking it now or later. 

When we filmed the documentary, there was a movement around the country hailing health care workers as heroes. 

Families stuck yard signs on their lawns, New Yorkers serenaded at sunset. Celebrities sent pizza and pastries to hospitals. 

As the novelty of the pandemic began to fade, we faced hard truths. Fatigue and sustainability began to intersect. It’s not a new phenomenon, just ask anyone who has experienced a kind of world shaking event. 

Pulse nightclub and Boston marathon bombing survivors I’ve interviewed come to mind. They know and I knew: The cameras, cards and celebrity shout outs always fade. 

I asked the nurses if another reality presented itself where there were no pizza deliveries, yard signs or serenades: “Would you rather have had that?”
And all of them said no. 

It’s important when you read or listen to people who say that those efforts were frivolous or unsustainable to read that with a deeper level of nuance. 

Were they unsustainable? Yes. 

Were they frivolous? Absolutely not. 

Each nurse wanted me to double down on the love and support bolstered them during those strange and scary days. 

“I have a calling to do it,” said one of our nurses. “And so that doesn't really matter to me that the external praise has gone. But, it was nice to be recognized.”

Some nurses told us that instead of praise, they would prefer that people showed them that they cared through their actions by taking the coronavirus seriously. 
Another common theme? Frustration. 

“I don't think people are really social distancing, one nurse said.&#38;nbsp; “And I get it, I totally get that it sucks. But as long as people are resistant to doing the things that we need to do, it's going to take longer to eradicate this. 

I learned when I talked to the nurses for a second time that while our lives have changed since May, theirs have mostly stayed the same. One nurse said that what has stayed the same since May is that there are very few victories in COVID.

“Everyone mostly dies,” said the nurse. “In the ICU, I've seen very few people walk out.”
And yet, every day since May they have been going to work with the goal to do everything that they can. 

I hope that as we near the anniversary of the WHO’s declaration of the pandemic, you watch this documentary. 

You’ll see the best traits of humanity on display: patience, knowledge, resilience, grace and service. 

Perhaps, you'll have the traits of the person you aspire to to be.

I did.


With love,&#38;nbsp;Robert X Fogarty
Dear World, Founder
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