Abstract:

Introduction:
This work was conducted as a result of the world pandemic due to SARS-COV 2 virus contagion. At the Faculty of Nursing in Albacete, the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), we filmed a video of testimonies of patients, Erasmus students, nurses and year-4 students whose practicals ended 2 months before their university studies did. Some students have worked 2 months in healthcare tasks and others have lived complicated situations at home as they, their relations, neighbours and friends were ill. This document type is an essential testimony of the hard cruel historic experience we have had to live.

Objective:
To know all the feelings that year-4 students and different nursing professionals have felt in the recent months of the healthcare crisis.

Method:
We filmed a video with workers’ different views that the nurses of medical centres in the Albacete province and year-4 students of the UCLM nursing degree deserve, including: critical care units, ambulance services, A&E (Accident and Emergency), hospital bed units, midwives, medical centres, old people’s homes, healthcare aid, students and patients.

Results:
All the testimonies add relevant human values and revalue the healthcare world as a whole, particularly the fundamental social role of nursing, which is always poorly recognised and is claimed. These professionals have been in the forefront, offered the best possible care in different services, known how to fight in this extremely complex chaotic situation without protection, and once more shown the values representing the nursing profession, union and teamwork against a common enemy: coronavirus

Conclusions:
The diversity of this video is fundamental and offers us a positive tone and trust in human beings to bear adversity: vocation, generosity, comradeship, responsibility, importance of teamwork, active listening, knowing how to suffer and cry with patients, and overcoming fear and uncertainty.
These healthcare professionals are not heroes, but people who look after people and have suffered the consequences of this awful situation. They are the fundamental link of healthcare.

Keywords:

Nursing, primary healthcare, hospital care, COVID 19.