A photojournalist for nearly two decades, Alan Hawes now works as a registered nurse in South Carolina. Eventually, he decided to start documenting his experiences with health workers and COVID patients in the critical care unit.
A team of nurses, patient care technicians and a respiratory therapist prepare to return a COVID patient to their back after 24 hours of lying on their stomach. That posture makes it easier to breathe and is a critical part of treatment for COVID patients in hospitals.
Now he works as a registered nurse at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, and the man in the picture was a patient.Neither does Hawes. That's why he got the idea to start photographing his daily experiences with health care workers and COVID-19 patients in the critical care unit. Left: Patient care technician Kelly Burchette comforts intensive care unit nurse Andrea Crain as she breaks down in tears after calling a patient's wife to tell her to come to the hospital because her husband is dying."Everybody is dying, and it just makes me so sad," Crain said. Right: A patient's prayer cloth is attached to an IV pole at the request of the patient's family.
Bucko has worked at the hospital for nearly 20 years. She says she loves caring for people. But like millions of health care workers across the country, she is exhausted — physically, mentally and emotionally. "I've been told by patients' families [who can't come to visit] that we are making this up to drum up business at the hospital," says Bucko.Left: Tala'Shea Foster uses FaceTime to see her newborn son, delivered by emergency cesarean section because her COVID was so severe. Foster says she didn't know the vaccine was available for pregnant women.
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