Portraits: Celia Nieto, ICU nurse

ICU nurse Celia Nieto, 44, stands for a portrait outside her home Thursday, April 8, 2020, in the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson. Nieto, who is a National Nurses United union representative, struggled with the high demands of her job in the center of a pandemic, including the need for extra PPE and staff as well as struggling emotionally. “There was no escape of the hugeness of everything,” she recalls as she worked her way through another wave of COVID, “Is this the day I get sick? Is this the day I bring it home to my family?”
Celia Nieto, ICU nurse

ICU nurse Celia Nieto, 44, stands for a portrait outside her home Thursday, April 8, 2020, in the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson. Nieto, who is a National Nurses United union representative, struggled with the high demands of her job in the center of a pandemic, including the need for extra PPE and staff as well as struggling emotionally. “There was no escape of the hugeness of everything,” she recalls as she worked her way through another wave of COVID, “Is this the day I get sick? Is this the day I bring it home to my family?”