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They call themselves the \u201churricane nurses.\u201d<\/p>\n

They\u2019re a team of relief nurses from around the country working 14-hour shifts with no days off in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. They are sleeping in spare hospital beds at Conroe Regional Medical Center just outside of Houston.<\/p>\n

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Rachel Kuker (second from right) volunteered to work as a relief nurse at a hospital near Houston in the wake of Hurricane Harvey. Photo courtesy of Rachel Kuker.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As Hurricane Irma swirls up from Florida to Georgia today, UCHealth nurse Rachel Kuker is working with nurses from those states who volunteered to come to Texas. Now, as they tend to patients in Houston, they wonder what kind of damage their own homes and families have faced.<\/p>\n

The hurricane nurses bring comfort and find that long after the rain stops, the challenges from the storms will continue.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a patient this morning who was ready to be discharged, but he didn\u2019t have anywhere to go,\u201d Kuker, 31, said over the weekend.<\/p>\n

The man told her that Harvey had flooded his home and he was staying with friends. But they had no way to come get him. So for the moment, he had to stay at the hospital.<\/p>\n

Conroe also has received patients from other hospitals and long-term care facilities that had suffered damage from Harvey.<\/p>\n

Kuker has found that her volunteer assignment with a relief agency called Health Trust has been anything but easy. Patients are uncomfortable and uncertain about the days ahead. Kuker expects to be volunteering at Conroe for two weeks. She arrived there on Sept. 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m definitely exhausted, but I\u2019m hanging in there,\u201d Kuker said.<\/p>\n

While the lack of comfort and the reverberations from Harvey\u2019s destruction cause her headaches every day, she has been overwhelmed by the gratitude everyone expresses.<\/p>\n

Kuker is wearing her UCHealth scrubs at the Texas hospital and the other nurses wear uniforms from their home hospitals. The uniforms trigger great conversations about the work the nurses are doing.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery single person who finds out where we\u2019re from is so incredibly appreciative, from nurses to doctors and patients,\u201d Kuker said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t see Harvey\u2019s destruction and the work we\u2019re doing here is very similar to the work I do at home. But because of us, the nurses here are able to leave the hospital and go take care of their issues at home,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Kuker worked on the same unit all last week and had a powerful experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cA little lady touched my heart. She was wanting to die and her family wasn\u2019t ready,\u201d Kuker said.<\/p>\n

When Kuker first met the elderly patient, she\u00a0was angry and frustrated and she felt no one was listening to her. Nurses have special training to consider their patients\u2019 lives, not just their vital signs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI spent a lot of time talking with my patient and her family about the goals of care and what the future looked like,\u201d Kuker said. \u201cEven though the family was not ready to move on to her next stage of life, it was absolutely my job to make sure that we remembered (the patient\u2019s) wishes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was very touching. I was very attached to her,\u201d Kuker said.<\/p>\n

During a typical workweek at UCHealth University of Colorado hospital, Kuker never works six days in a row. But the upside of her relief work in Houston was bonding with the woman and her family at a critical time in their lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy the end, she was smiling and she was so sweet. She became as peaceful as could be,\u201d Kuker said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI shed some tears when I had to say goodbye, but she thanked me for taking care of her. And I told her it was a pleasure. I got to know her family and they were so appreciative. That was really special. I guess that\u2019s why we do what we do.\u201d<\/p>\n

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