Latinos Are Essential
Night Shift
Special | 4m 36sVideo has Closed Captions
Dulce Bueno is an EMT who works long nights during the difficult days of the pandemic.
Twenty-two-year-old Dulce Bueno is a first response EMT who works long nights driving an ambulance for one of Colorado’s busiest trauma centers. Her job takes an enormous emotional toll, especially during the difficult days of the pandemic.
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Latinos Are Essential
Night Shift
Special | 4m 36sVideo has Closed Captions
Twenty-two-year-old Dulce Bueno is a first response EMT who works long nights driving an ambulance for one of Colorado’s busiest trauma centers. Her job takes an enormous emotional toll, especially during the difficult days of the pandemic.
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Latino Public Broadcasting
Latino Public Broadcasting is the leader of the development, production, acquisition and distribution of non-commercial educational and cultural media that is representative of Latino people, or addresses issues of particular interest to Latino Americans.(calm music) - My name is Dulce Bueno, I am 22 years old.
I currently work as an Emergency Medical Technician or EMT.
I work on an ambulance.
I work 12-hour shifts, three to four days a week, all over the Denver Metro area here in Colorado.
- Hey, y'all.
It's timestamp 18:20, 6:20.
Sorry, we use military time.
I'm heading to work now.
- [Dulce Bueno, Voice Over] I can have anything between 10 back-to-back calls.
Or having one or two a night, in a 12-hour stretch.
There was a good couple of weeks where it was just nothing but COVID patients.
- 237, we're now in service.
- [Radio] 237, thank you, I've got you in service.
[Inaudible] - Copy, Lutheran.
- [Dulce Bueno] The goal tonight is, to not only take care of our patients, but to make it home safely.
- [Laptop] For outpatient care, as opposed to inpatient care.
- I currently go to CU Denver.
I'm getting my Bachelor of Arts in Public Health.
My next step is gonna be paramedic school and working as a paramedic.
- [Laptop] And doing things that will decrease expenses.
- As a first-generation college student, it is a hard path because I don't really have anyone to go to to be like, "Hey, how do I apply for college?
How do I apply for medical school?"
My goal in life is to be the role model that I never had.
- [Radio] 237, copy.
[Inaudible] - Copy.
- [Dulce Bueno] Working on an ambulance, we get asked a lot of the questions of what's the craziest thing you've seen?
A lot of people tend to think that it's gonna be those traumatic car accidents.
For me personally, it's the psychiatric calls.
Right now with everything that's going on with COVID, we are seeing a lot more pediatric overdoses, a lot more, any age, of suicidal ideations and a lot of the times, it's just holding their hand and telling them that it's gonna be okay and it's okay to cry and it's okay to be sad right now.
- [Radio] 237, copy.
Can you give us a landline please?
- [Voice Over] It does take a toll when you're getting back to back calls of these things happening.
- [Radio] 117, you're clear for [Inaudible] - It's another one of those nights.
(pensive music) - It's a really rough night.
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