Hello dear friends.

I am an ICU registered nurse.

This week, I am working with a young woman, aged only 31, who is currently severely ill with Covid.

She is on a ventilator and unable to speak, but can communicate somewhat by writing. She is on mild sedation to make the tube down her throat more tolerable, but which does not affect her ability to make decisions. She has no known family in the US. I think she has some family in the Middle East but I have been unable to contact them. She has expressed to me via writing that her religion is extremely important to her.

She is currently seriously unwell, and is unlikely to survive the next week. I am going to be her nurse for this period. I want to do everything I can to help her.

I was raised Christian, and I am from a pretty rural part of the US. I am ignorant. I know little about Islam, other than the very basics.

I have taught myself how to put on her hijab using YouTube. I have found an app on my phone that allows me to position her bed to face Mecca when she tells me she wants to pray. I have requested that only female nurses and doctors tend to her, where possible.

Is there anything else I can do for this young lady?