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Nurses Union: Duncan Not Put In Isolation, Waste Piled Nearly Up to Ceiling
CNN News via Breitbart TV ^ | 14 Oct 2014, 8:15 PM PDT

Posted on 10/14/2014 9:15:46 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather

CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta reported on further allegations made by a nurses union that Dallas Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan was not put into isolation, allowed his blood to circulate through the hospital’s tube system, and that waste “piled up nearly to the ceiling” inside patient’s rooms on Tuesday’s “CNN Tonight.”

Gupta said that the National Nurses United stated that they were informed by nurses that “Mr. Duncan was not in isolation. He was not in isolation for several hours, despite the fact that a nursing supervisor asked that he go into isolation, and that he may have come in contact with seven patients at that time.”

The also claimed, “the blood, the laboratory blood that was taken from Mr. Duncan was sent through the hospital tube system…and the concern is that tube system could potentially become contaminated as a result of the fact that this blood with Ebola was circulating through it.”

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: ceiling; dallas; duncan; ebola; nurses; texas; waste
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To: re_nortex
Defund the CDC!

You're stark, raving nuts if you think not having a national center for disease control and prevention would be a good thing. Oh, let's have all 50 states do it separately. Or turn it over to a private pharmaceutical company. So they could only research the profitable ones. Nuts!

81 posted on 10/14/2014 11:21:32 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: Cats Pajamas

BINGO!


82 posted on 10/14/2014 11:24:46 PM PDT by piytar (So....you are saying that Hilllary (and Obama) do not know what the meaning of the word "IS" IS?)
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To: F15Eagle

I know a nurse in a Boston hospital. They are not allowed to talk about the briefings. All she would say was to buy water.


83 posted on 10/14/2014 11:30:41 PM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Over 80% of health care workers are female, so I suppose most of these idiots are Obama drones.


84 posted on 10/14/2014 11:55:20 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: re_nortex

I am personally aware of the havoc and TOTAL loss of jobs that the UAW wrought upon New Stanton (I live in Westmoreland County); and growing up it was obvious the USW was killng the American steel industry w/out of control wages/contracts. For the most part I see the problems powerful unions bring today (SEIU!) but, in this instance, I cannot think that anyone nurse would risk their license to call out the malfeasance that seems to have happened between the CDC and Dallas Presbyterian.

Trash piled up to the ceiling? Maybe NOT the ceiling, but if housekeeping isnt on Level 4 infection control (remember Freidan said EVERY hospital here is “ready for Ebola”) then what happens? It piles up til the protocol is determined on HOW to safely remove. Again, would one rogue nurse take to the media and be heard? Would that nurse be hired again? Keep her license? But, in THIS CASE an organized nurses Union can do MORE to call out the failures of the system (and I place blame at both the hospital and CDC) and instigate changes in the protocols.

My husband watched Megyn Kelly tonight. He was STUNNED that Freidan said HAIR/NECK coverings were unnecessary. Think about that....thats the type of issue reps of the nurses (again, their union) IS SCREAMING about.

Nurses, I have found are almost exclusively patient advocates, in this deadly situation, they NEED organized advocates.


85 posted on 10/14/2014 11:56:02 PM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom ( Just because you are paranoid, it doesn't mean they aren't out to get you...)
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To: TigerClaws

Yes. That is exactly how it is intended to happen.


86 posted on 10/15/2014 12:08:07 AM PDT by SatinDoll (A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE US OF US CITIZEN PARENTS.)
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To: TigerClaws
Where is the yellow caution tape? this was high tech in Spain. It is nice to see checklists except they must be verified before they can be trusted. Gupta was complaining about the tubes. Only the CDC can test for Ebola. This hospital I worked at had an operation involving Mad Cow. It took security to come up with a fix for the waste.
88 posted on 10/15/2014 12:48:43 AM PDT by Domangart (Tho I walk Through the valley of Wall Mart, I fear no man.)
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To: daisy12

it’s what obama wants.


89 posted on 10/15/2014 1:05:59 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: lee martell

It was my understanding that hazardous waste is hauled out of state for disposal. That state’s Governor has issued an edict that they will not receive Ebola waste. Could be they have no place to incinerate it yet, but I don’t know if that is the cause of this or not.


90 posted on 10/15/2014 1:07:07 AM PDT by marsh2
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To: Ray76

“If this is true heads gotta roll.”

If which part is true? Whose heads?

The CDC website, right now, still does not recommend head and neck coverage. So, this hospital, like most hospitals, was following guidance. If Duncan was not in CDC recommended isolation, that’s bad, all right. But if he was, and it was inadequate, that’s on CDC.


91 posted on 10/15/2014 1:21:20 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: tcrlaf
I agree that is likely, but consider transporting a patient for a minimum of 5 hours by road from the most distant areas in some states (in some even longer) by ground transport, or flying them (1 hour), and risking aircraft and crew...

In many states, EMS is mostly to completely volunteer.

Who ya gonna call?

Private vehicles? (stop here, I gotta... I wanna... I'm hungry/thirsty...) Too much infection potential.

If you are in the city with the center... you might get treatment. If not, the further away you are, the less likely you will be treated. (IOW, you're on your own if you get infected.)

92 posted on 10/15/2014 1:44:05 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Drago
I am thinking the “tube system” refers to a vacuum transport tube system (like the drive up teller at the bank or the one for cash at Costco)...take a blood sample, seal the vial, label it, put it in a “carrier” and send to the hospital lab for testing.

Yikes! Where does the exhaust air go? Is it filtered (on the way out)?

93 posted on 10/15/2014 1:48:04 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: steve86
You're stark, raving nuts if you think not having a national center for disease control and prevention would be a good thing.

It would be a great to have a national center for disease prevention and control. Maybe Congress can squeak one into the budget.

94 posted on 10/15/2014 1:51:09 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: tcrlaf; All

The reason we are sending so many to Liberia is because they only have left than 50 doctors left, in the entire country. All of the others have run for their lives.
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Read Tuesday that Doctors Without Borders have lost about nine of their participants to ebola.

I don’t like Obama ordering our military to go to West Africa, because of the risks they may be subjected to there.

One report I saw indicated our military was there to construct isolation/quarantine units only, but who can believe this Administration.


95 posted on 10/15/2014 2:45:23 AM PDT by octex
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To: Cats Pajamas

Agreed, this looks like whats happening. The solution would be interesting but it could look a lot like martial law....and the Resident overstaying his term.


96 posted on 10/15/2014 3:17:42 AM PDT by 556x45
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To: TigerClaws
Here’s the CDC website on dealing with Ebola for hospitals: http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/index.html

The Republicans cut the CDC budget! (Even though they got $400 million more than they asked for this year).

97 posted on 10/15/2014 3:24:09 AM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: familyop

What’s your point?


98 posted on 10/15/2014 3:25:00 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: re_nortex

I’m not a unionized RN, though I am an RN. To be fair, while even the Nurses unions are a bit PC, the main ones are fiercely pro nurse and working conditions. They are not as money oriented...they are mostly about working conditions, hour and staffing ratios. The kind of stuff unions should be about, not the political stuff.


99 posted on 10/15/2014 3:25:37 AM PDT by mdmathis6
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
I notice the CDC Ebola page now has the prior “Ebola is a biohazard level 4 virus” references scrubbed...I was reading at the site about a week ago and the level 4 refs. where there, now I can’t find them

Frieden is a NYC communist democrat propagandist son of a bitch.

Ebola is THE most dangerous virus in the world and this bastard is acting like its the flu.

This is an intentional attempt by the foreign marxists in the WH to infect the USA.

100 posted on 10/15/2014 3:27:40 AM PDT by Rome2000
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