Inza Inza Influenza

It feels like an epidemic. We are getting hit hard in the Northeast. Acuity is up, Bed availibilty is down. For about a month now the department has seen an increase in ES  1-2's. Mostly respitory distress and failure hidden amongst a sea of "Flu-Like Symptons" in the WR. 

Of course the emails and memos don't stop coming about Norwall virus pathways and documentation. One by one staff started dropping like flys out for days from this killer strain. I got nailed by it about two weeks ago and was in bed for four days. When I returned to work the next week about ten pounds lighter there was a CF of float nurses and travelers running amuck. The Nurse manager even made a point to have a meeting to verbally harass all those who had banged out sick over the past month.