{"id":162340,"date":"2020-08-05T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=162340"},"modified":"2020-07-31T11:51:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T15:51:43","slug":"uconn-magazine-baptism-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2020\/08\/uconn-magazine-baptism-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Magazine: Baptism by Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The nursing class of 2019 has not been eased into the working world. \u201cI just came off orientation in January,\u201d says Mia Hrabcsak \u201919 (NUR). \u201cI\u2019m not just learning how to be a good nurse, but how to be a good nurse in the middle of a pandemic.\u201d Hrabcsak had just come off a shift on the surgical orthopedic floor at UConn Health Farmington. With elective surgeries on hold, the floor was filled with overflow Covid-19 patients, and things were stressful. \u201clt\u2019s hard to imagine we haven\u2019t hit our surge. People are rushing in constantly; how could it get much worse?\u201d The hardest part, she says, is watching people suffer alone, especially when they are put on ventilators.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2020\/06\/17\/baptism-byfire\/\">Read on for more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m not just learning how to be a good nurse, but how to be a good nurse in the middle of a pandemic,\u201d says Mia Hrabcsak \u201919 (NUR).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":162341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2231,2225],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2027],"class_list":["post-162340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-well-being","category-uconn-storrs"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-07 04:41:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162343,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162340\/revisions\/162343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/162341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162340"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=162340"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=162340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}