Brittany Baptise is a nurse at the Scarborough General Hospital in Trinidad and Tobago, in the Caribbean. Today is her day off and she smiles as she describes how nervous she was when she learned that she would be working in an intensive care unit (ICU) to treat COVID-19 patients.“I was a bit fearful because, coming from the medical ward, we didn’t really know the rules and function of an ICU.
I had no formal training, I had little knowledge about how the ventilator works, the settings and these things.”By the end of September 2020, Brittany was trained and working in the ICU with new skills and competencies to offer as part of an integrated team of health professionals.