This photograph and narrative depicts the experience of a nurse and frontline worker during the pandemic, providing direct care to COVID patients and helping develop technological solutions for health challenges during the pandemic.

“As a Registered Nurse, I have served in every way possible during this pandemic from caring for COVID-19 patients to getting sick with the virus myself/witnessing my other frontline co-workers get sick, from participating in Johnson & Johnson’s first ever virtual NurseHack4Health: COVID-19 Virtual Hackathon, co-sponsored by SONSIEL, Microsoft, and dev up, which entailed solving COVID-19 health challenges with technological solutions, to working at a COVID-19 testing site, from doing rounds for my hospital’s Infection Prevention department to being the team lead for my department in helping create my hospital’s COVID-19 Recovery Program, and becoming a member of my hospital’s COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force.”

“We can heal our state by thinking globally and acting locally. It is important to be mindful of the fact that we are all interconnected and that our actions not only affect ourselves but also others. We also need to follow the advice of infectious disease experts and medical professionals and only share information from credible sources.”