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Health Graduates Enter the Field at an Anxious Moment
By Joseph Bednar
Tallon Tomasi used to punch the same clock everyone else does when starting her shift as an LPN at the Leavitt Family Jewish Home in Longmeadow.
Not anymore. Because she works in a COVID-positive unit at the skilled-nursing facility, she enters by a different way than those in the negative units.
recent travels, recent exposure to people who have traveled. Then we get our gear, we wash our hands, and go to work.”
As a nursing student at Holy- oke Community College, Tomasi is just beginning her healthcare career, and doing so right on the front lines of a global pandemic the likes of which haven’t been seen in more than a century.
Some aspects of it are tough to bear.
“The thing that’s very hard is not having family members being able to come in and see their loved ones as we are going through this difficult time,”
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“The thing that’s very hard is not having family members being able to come in and
see their loved ones as we are going through this difficult time. Some of our patients have dementia, and not being able to see their families, it is challenging.”
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