＂Let me go, I have experience!＂ Seventeen years later, she pleaded again to fight the epidemic.

CCTV News:17 years ago, when the SARS epidemic broke out, Guo Huimin, head nurse of Beijing You ‘an Hospital, entered the front line. Seventeen years later, when the COVID-19 epidemic broke out, Guo Huimin once again asked for a war. The reason for asking for a war was simple: "Let me go, I have experience!"

In the rear, we must be the strong backing of nurses.

On the first day of New Year’s Day in 2020, Guo Huimin received a notice from the nursing department of the hospital to set up an isolation ward in COVID-19 to treat patients. As a "veteran" with 28 years’ experience in nursing infectious diseases, she immediately rushed to the hospital for the first time. However, this time she was not sent to the front line.

As the head nurse of internal medicine, Guo Huimin has rich management experience and is familiar with the situation of nurses. Therefore, the hospital first arranged for her to assist in the deployment of nursing staff.

She assisted the nursing department, determined the echelon of reserve personnel according to the professional ability, characteristics and family situation of nursing staff, and arranged the head nurse, backbone nurses, nurses at different levels and specialist nurses to enter the ward in batches, so as to ensure that the staff were reserved, arranged in a planned way, the department informed early and the nurses prepared early, thus ensuring the orderly development of nursing work in COVID-19 ward.

In view of the fact that nurses in COVID-19 ward have many regular shifts, the staff is not fixed, and they can’t concentrate on training and learning, she recorded videos such as specimen transfer and walking route in COVID-19 ward, and sent them to nurses to facilitate everyone’s study.

Guo Huimin knows that the rear is also a "battlefield". As a head nurse, she must be the strong backing of nurses so that they have no worries.

On the front line, nurses are also "spiritual comforters"

With the development of the epidemic, Guo Huimin entered the isolation ward and served as the head nurse of the infection center. Every day, she goes to the ward at 7 o’clock in the morning and is busy until late at night. At the end of the day, in addition to doing a good job in nursing, Guo Huimin should be a "spiritual comforter" for patients with the nurses in the ward constantly improving and refining the nursing workflow.

Different from other hospitalized patients, the family members of COVID-19 patients are not allowed to visit, let alone accompany them, and the ward medical staff are the only objects they can get along with day and night. Without the company of relatives, many patients seem to be on an island, causing fear and loneliness.

In order to relieve their psychological pressure, Guo Huimin goes to bed every day to chat with them to understand their psychological state and life needs.

During a rounds, a mother and daughter caught Guo Huimin’s attention. That is a young mother whose daughter is just one year old. Both infected women are anxious, especially their mothers, who feel a great physical and psychological burden. And children see so many uncles and aunts dressed in "weird", and they are also afraid. Guo Huimin is also a mother, and her child’s frightened eyes make her worry. In order to make children smile again, Guo Huimin immediately mobilized general nurses to buy toys and daily necessities for children. Not only that, Guo Huimin will hug the children first and play with them for a while before each rounds.

　Guo Huimin and the baby in the ward

Unconsciously, the child always makes a "giggle" laugh, which also reduces the anxiety of the child’s mother.

"Although the patient can’t see us through the thick protective clothing, touching the patient’s arm, patting the patient’s shoulder and saying a word of encouragement will make the patient feel kind and enhance their confidence in overcoming the disease." Guo Huimin said.

When entering the isolation ward, the protection work should not be sloppy.

As a head nurse, superb professional ability is necessary for her duties, and protecting the safety of everyone who goes in and out of the ward is a matter of constant concern to her.

Having been fighting for a long time in the front line of infectious disease prevention and control, Guo Huimin knows that in the isolation ward, the work should not be sloppy, and a little carelessness may cause serious consequences. Therefore, first of all, she is strict with herself and is not allowed to slack off, which also makes the nursing team in the department take her as a benchmark.

As the "big housekeeper" of nurses, Guo Huimin wears protective clothing every day to check the reserve of protective items in the ward and pay attention to the work and psychological situation of nurses. Even if the goggles are dripping and the back is soaked with sweat, she will still strictly ask the medical staff to do a good job of protection according to the specifications.

It is her wish that every warrior who fights the epidemic can come back safely.

　Guo Huimin is guiding nurses in the ward.

Nowadays, many patients have been cured and discharged from hospital. Many patients will say to Guo Huimin and the medical staff when they leave: "Thank you for your careful care these days. It is really not easy for you."

But for Guo Huimin, there is nothing "not easy", which is just his own responsibility.

From the fight against SARS to the fight against the COVID-19 epidemic, the phrase "Let me go, I have experience" is behind Guo Huimin’s belief and responsibility in the face of epidemic prevention and control, and it is also the mission and initial heart of a medical worker to save lives. (Text/Chen Xin)