{"id":109164,"date":"2020-05-05T14:07:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T18:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/109164///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/109164//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/109164//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/109164//?p=109164"},"modified":"2022-03-21T12:56:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T16:56:36","slug":"ucf-professor-mentor-to-all-whether-in-classroom-icu-or-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/109164///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/109164//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/109164//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/109164//ucf-professor-mentor-to-all-whether-in-classroom-icu-or-deployment/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/109164//","title":{"rendered":"Preparing the Frontline"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometime in the next few weeks, UCF Assistant Professor of Nursing Frank Guido-Sanz will have 12 hours to drop everything, grab his jump bag and travel to wherever he/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/109164/u2019s deployed as a member of the National Disaster Medical System. Guido-Sanz, a lead on the NDMS/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/109164/u2019 Trauma and Critical Care Team, serves the most vulnerable patients in times of crisis, including past deployments during the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and 2017/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/109164/u2019s Hurricane Harvey in Houston./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/109164/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/109164/u201cThis is an invisible enemy; you don/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/109164/u2019t know who has been exposed. But this is my commitment of service./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/109164/u201d /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/109164/u2014 Frank Guido-Sanz, UCF assistant professor of nursing/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/109164/n

This time the emergency is the COVID-19 pandemic, and the circumstances he/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/109164/u2019ll face are drastically different than the natural disasters he/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/109164/u2019s worked through before. Treating patients for a novel biohazard in what will potentially be one of the worst outbreaks in the country comes with a lot of uncertainty, but one thing that/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/109164/u2019s sure is he/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/109164/u2019s ready./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/109164/n

/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/109164/u201cI feel like I should be where I am most needed,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/109164/u201d says Guido-Sanz, a nurse practitioner in the intensive care unit at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/109164/u201cWith a natural disaster you can physically see the impact. This is an invisible enemy; you don/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/109164/u2019t know who has been exposed. But this is my commitment of service./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/109164/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/109164/n

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During the week, Guido-Sanz teaches in Orlando, but on Fridays he travels to Jackson Memorial, the third-largest hospital in the United States, to care for critically ill patients during the weekend. Working in one of the most sensitive areas in the hospital requires him to wear full-body personal protective equipment, including a head cap, an N95 respirator, surgical mask, face shield and a barrier coat, all of which take a toll on more than the physical body./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/109164/n