Nurses and Long-COVID Launch: hosted by Clare Gerada, May 2021

[Sly Saint]

 

[Trish]

I've watched bits of this. It's about setting up groups for nurses with long covid for mutual support. I get the impression that it's mostly about mental health support. They are going to run the groups with a facilitator for 8 sessions, then have a final webinar. Gerada set up the same thing for doctors with long covid.

 

[DokaGirl]

I am confused as to what is meant by 'launch';

Is it the type where we throw bottles of champagne at them until they sidle off into the sea, or the type where a large amount of highly volatile 'liquids' are ignited at their feet and, and with much roaring they ascend to the heavens?

In any event the word 'launch' is typically used to indicate the event that immediately precedes a voyage of some kind.

A different word exists for a load of people sitting around talking - this word may be 'lunch'.

So, hopefully they do mean, as they say, launch - and they are all buggering off to somewhere far away.

 

[rvallee]

I did a quick skim and there is basically nothing there, nurses talking about the job of health care and why they do that job with a GP who is mostly talking about how important it is to work in health care, or something. It's very generic.

Zero meat on the bone, zero science discussed, don't even talk much about Long Covid, most of it seems focused on the pandemic in general and how it affects health care workers. Patient groups are much more serious in their discussions, but I don't think that was the point here anyway, this is a generic support group labeled Long Covid that doesn't really talk much about LC.

So really I have no idea what the purpose is other than Gerada hearing herself talk about how important her job is and how health care workers should... I don't know something I guess?