These former nurses were asked to leave retirement and return to the front lines
Juliana Morawski has realized that she most likely couldn't go back to working in an emergency room, even if she wanted to. As a retired emergency nurse of 30 years, that realization is hard for someone who just wants to lend a helping hand on the front lines.
But even though she isn't in the ER, Morawski, 69, is working at an Illinois clinic, answering phones and administering and she told CNN she takes comfort in knowing that "anything is better than nothing."
She said due to her age and some minor health problems, she thinks ER managers would consider her a high risk.
"I still, honestly, feel guilty that I'm not able to help (in the ER) because they (nurses) are so burned out," she said. "They're definitely getting hammered and hammered, daily."
Morawski got a first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine last week and said she's looking forward to the second dose next month.
"We're under threat, more than any other time I can remember in emergency medicine," Morawski told CNN's Alisyn Camerota. "I've never seen emergency departments or nursing or any of the services, actually, in general, under so much threat. And it's a family. So when family is threatened, you try to step up as much as you can."
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