An exclusive interview: The nurse on the front lines against the covid-19 pandemic

People’s mental health is at the point that it may have never been before, and a lot of the avenues we have, it’s cute, but it is not real.

We need to collaborate and offer evidence-based resources in dealing with that situational trauma and processing it, learning how to deal with it because we are in a profession where we are taught to deal with it because that is what you signed up for.

Tim Hunter is a Registered Nurse, having worked in Human Resources, and challenged pediatric precedents with a diagnosis within mental health and intellectual disabilities capacity.

After Nursing School, he started working in Adult Cystic Fibrosis, Palliative, Hospice, and General MedSurg in Florida.

After a year, he was transferred to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, then to Acute Care Management. He went into Utilization Management and ran the Appeals and Grievances team of 20. Currently, he holds a position with Angle Health as Clinical Project Manager.

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