The omicron surge is stretching Illinois nurses to the limit

Photo of nurse at hospital on Chicago’s South Side
Roseland Community Hospital RN Rhonda Jones, prepares bed linens, towels and a hospital gown Friday, Jan. 29, 2021, for a new patient. Jones has treated many patients with severe COVID-19, a relative died from it, and her mother and a nephew were infected and recovered. Charles Rex Arbogast / Associated Press
Photo of nurse at hospital on Chicago’s South Side
Roseland Community Hospital RN Rhonda Jones, prepares bed linens, towels and a hospital gown Friday, Jan. 29, 2021, for a new patient. Jones has treated many patients with severe COVID-19, a relative died from it, and her mother and a nephew were infected and recovered. Charles Rex Arbogast / Associated Press

The omicron surge is stretching Illinois nurses to the limit

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Last week, National Nurses United went on strike to protest working conditions that they say omicron has exacerbated. This is part two in our look at how the surge in cases and hospitalizations has been affecting nurses.

Reset checks in with a career nurse who works in hospitals in Chicago and Northwest Indiana.

GUEST: Jeanette Alvarez-Basem, critical care nurse at University of Illinois Medical Center and at community hospitals in Northwest Indiana