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I was a nurse on the front lines of Ebola, and I saw that nurses need support for the trauma and pain they experience

  • Written by Cheedy Jaja, Professor of Nursing, University of South Carolina
Nurse Cheedy Jaja in Sierre Leone in 2015, where he helped treat patients with Ebola during the West Africa outbreak. Rebecca E. Rollins/Partners in Health, CC BY-SA

The Conversation is running a series of dispatches from clinicians and researchers operating on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. You can find all of the stories here.

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