US NURSES: We're Not Prepared To Handle Ebola Patients

Reuters ^ | October 4, 2014 | JULIE STEENHUYSEN, REUTERS

[maggief]

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Nurses, the frontline care providers in U.S. hospitals, say they are untrained and unprepared to handle patients arriving in their hospital emergency departments infected with Ebola.

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A survey by National Nurses United of some 400 nurses in more than 200 hospitals in 25 states found that more than half (60 percent) said their hospital is not prepared to handle patients with Ebola, and more than 80 percent said their hospital has not communicated to them any policy regarding potential admission of patients infected by Ebola.

Another 30 percent said their hospital has insufficient supplies of eye protection and fluid-resistant gowns.

"If there are protocols in place, the nurses are not hearing them and the nurses are the ones who are exposed," said RoseAnn DeMoro, executive director of National Nurses United, which serves as both a union and a professional association for U.S. nurses.

[boycott]

We need real leadership in this crisis.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tdaHvEYNKSM

[Don Corleone]

Cloward-Piven moves into the E.R.

[null and void]

The game of Ebola Roulette continues...

*click* spin *click* spin *click* spin…BANG!

Eeeee-bolllll-aaaaaa ping!

Bring Out Your Dead

We’re gonna need

a bigger cart!

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

[Texas Eagle]

Surprise, surprise, surprise.

Another loyal voting bloc of the DemocRAT Party (namesly, nursing unions) is on the tip of the knife that stabs Americans in the back.

[SoFloFreeper]

Yeah? Well maybe you SEIU nurses ought to overthrow your leadership and revolt against the danger they’ve put you in by supporting the Demon Rat party.

Ebola coming to America is due to Demon Rat policies, enacted by the SEIU little tin god barack hussein obama.

[wetphoenix]

Screw them! What a nurses they are after that? Some jobs means certain obligations and it is one of these jobs.

[Diogenesis]

DeathCARE/ObamaCARE/RomneyCARE removed the docs and
the insurance. THIS will remove the nurses.

.... But only for the non-EXEMPT.

The EXEMPT will be helicoptered to whatever state
has the best care ... for them, their EXEMPT staff,
and their EXEMPT families.

[boycott]

Senator Hussein Obama demanded leadership with the H1N1 scare. Now he does nothing.

You’re correct. Democratic policy is putting this nation at risk.

[Iron Munro]

Don’t these nurses know that Emporer Obama has stated the opposite?

They will be in serious trouble for speaking the truth.

[Diogenesis]

The DNC’s and Obola’s OCTOBER SURPRISE in 2014
..... is DEATH for AMERICA’S CHILDREN
by EV-68, tuberculosis, Ebola, and worse.

[onedoug]

Øbola commands you to be ready!

[cpdiii]

We can handle a few Ebola cases with isolation in rooms that are designed for this. Think the following:

1. Negative pressure room.
2. Double door portal entrance to the negative pressure room.
3. Absolute sterile technique when carrying for the patient.
4. Anything coming out of that room is to be decontaminated and or burned using proper techniques.

The real problem is we do not have many rooms in our hospitals that can provide this level of care. If we have an epidemic those rooms will be rapidly filled. We can not put Ebola patients on a general hospital ward. To do that would infect everyone on the wards.

If we have a true epidemic you will be cared for by your family or not at all. As a medical professional familiar with sterile technique I could "probably do this" provided I had access to proper gowns, masks, gloves, etc. I would also need access to IV fluids for the patient. The vast majority of people could not do this. They would infect themselves accidently.

[exDemMom]

Really? Nurses in ERs are not taught the fundamentals of infection control? I thought every hospital had procedures for dealing with contagious diseases; it’s not like the only people who show up in the ER are trauma patients.

[moovova]

“At Medstar, the issue of Ebola training came up at the bargaining table during contract negotiations...”

There ya go... If you want it done right, include it as a bargaining chip in contract negotiations.

Sheesh.

[ogen hal]

Nurses as a group vote LIB/DIM. You reap what you sow. Get to work.

[Diogenesis]

Taking care of Ebola is not “a fundamental of
infection control”. It is Level IV.

[boycott]

Yeah? Well maybe you SEIU nurses ought to overthrow your leadership .....

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I am wondering. Did you think I was seriously saying Obama was providing real leadership in the fight against ebola?

I posted the video because it showed what a hypocrite he is. How he had all the answers as a candidate but offers nothing as president. I despise the POS.

[Organic Panic]

THEY THINK I CARE!!!

[yldstrk]

Dear Nurses

Get prepared then. Don’t sit there like Katrina people in the dome. Do something.

When Katrina happened I told my kids if you are ever in a situation, don’t just sit there. Walk out. Do something.