Hunter Prosper: An ICU Nurse on Trauma and the Healing Power of Listening

**Lee C. Camp** (0:02)
I'm Lee C. Camp, and this is No Small Endeavor, exploring what it means to live a good life.

**Hunter Prosper** (0:10)
I remember my mom would call me, and my friends would call me, and I didn't talk to one of them, because I was getting so confused that making connection with someone meant you're gonna lose them.

**Lee C. Camp** (0:20)
That's Hunter Prosper talking about the profound burnout he experienced as an ICU nurse during the COVID pandemic.

**Hunter Prosper** (0:27)
This patient passed away, and instead of me feeling something, I immediately thought, I need to get this patient to the morgue because we need another patient in this room. And I think it was that moment that I had said, something's really wrong. I wasn't processing these emotions.

**Lee C. Camp** (0:42)
We discuss Hunter's experience navigating trauma as a young nurse, and how a simple attempt to reconnect with the world became a viral interview series called Stories From A Stranger.

**Hunter Prosper** (0:53)
One day I had said, I'm gonna go outside and talk to a stranger. I'm over not connecting with people.

**Lee C. Camp** (0:58)
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**Lee C. Camp** (4:11)
I'm Lee C. Camp, and this is No Small Endeavor, exploring what it means to live a good life.

**Hunter Prosper** (4:19)
I had a skewed vision of what nurses were. I just kind of thought, they're just giving sponge baths to people. Like really, that's what I thought nursing was.