Mother and daughter travel to New York together to work frontline nursing jobs
A mother and daughter from Arkansas traveled to New York City to help treat patients with coronavirus on the frontlines.Uchenna Onyia-Murphy, a nurse practitioner, and Ona Onyia, her 23-year-old daughter who’s a registered nurse, originally traveled to New York — considered the U.S. epicenter of coronavirus cases — for a 21-day assignment.The women have now both extended their stay for another six weeks.”Every day you go into work, you don’t know if you’re going to come out OK,” Onyia-Murphy told KATV. “You don’t know if you’re going to have COVID and survive it.”Despite the stresses of the job, they still have one another for support.Onyia told the TV station that one day after work, she was too exhausted to go to the laundromat to wash her scrubs, her mother came over and hand washed them for her.Watch the video above to learn more about this story.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Video from KATV via CNN) —
A mother and daughter from Arkansas traveled to New York City to help treat patients with coronavirus on the frontlines.
Uchenna Onyia-Murphy, a nurse practitioner, and Ona Onyia, her 23-year-old daughter who’s a registered nurse, originally traveled to New York — considered the U.S. epicenter of coronavirus cases — for a 21-day assignment.
The women have now both extended their stay for another six weeks.
“Every day you go into work, you don’t know if you’re going to come out OK,” Onyia-Murphy told KATV. “You don’t know if you’re going to have COVID and survive it.”
Despite the stresses of the job, they still have one another for support.
Onyia told the TV station that one day after work, she was too exhausted to go to the laundromat to wash her scrubs, her mother came over and hand washed them for her.
Watch the video above to learn more about this story.
