Nursing staff resign from their posts to avoid treating Ebola cases (SPAIN)

El Pais -English ^ | 9 October 2014 | Elena Sevillano

[tcrlaf]

Carlos III Hospital in Madrid, the health center where Ebola victim Teresa Romero is being treated, is having to draft in extra staff given that nurses are refusing to work with cases – or suspected cases – of the virus.

A number of other patients are being monitored in the hospital after having come into contact with Romero, although none so far has been confirmed as having contracted the virus.

“There are members of staff who are canceling their contracts so that they don’t have to enter [rooms with Ebola cases],” explains Elvira González, provincial vice-secretary of the SAE nurses’ union.

González explained that a number of nurses and technicians have formally resigned from their posts at the regional health department, while others have refused to treat patients under current conditions.

[RegulatorCountry]

If the situation ever reached such catastrophic levels, then most medical people would do what led them to devote their lives to medicine in the first place, they would show up to help, American nurses and doctors would not desert the sick in mass.

No doubt there are many medical professionals with that level of commitment and dedication. However, please keep in mind that medical professions have been among the few with well-paying positions that have grown and hired substantially over the past seven years.

So, there are quite a number of people in these positions merely for a job, with no such level of dedication to medicine.

[ansel12]

I don’t think that we are going to see nurses fleeing nursing in large numbers during this next few months or the year.

[riri]

That's largely idealistic thinking, IMO. Most people get into nursing because it is a stable career with great flexibility. (especially if they have or plan on having children). Three 12 hour shifts is very appealing. It's also a very in demand and mobile career. And the pay is pretty decent.

Sure there are some that have a need, a calling to heal and help. Sure, you'd have a healthy percentage of pleasers, easily guilted rule followers but, by and large, most people are not going to risk their lives and their families lives for a situation that they probably can't help and a government that won't lift a finger to stop.

[EnquiringMind]

Good for them. I would quit, too, if I witnessed a co-worker contract Ebola after taking all necessary precautions, and then was blamed for “breaching protocol”.

[ansel12]

It is a matter of opinion.

I guess your prediction is that we are going to see nurses deserting their jobs in large numbers out of fear, mine is that we won’t.

If medics flee in the face of various diseases when the sun is shining, then that means that the medical field is all an illusion and that the United States doesn’t stand a chance against actual bioterrorism delivered by experts.

That puts us in the position of waiting for the inevitable end at the hand of Islam, because bioterrorism will arrive here someday.

[jpsb]

You are an idiot, I do not engage idiots in debate.

[ansel12]

Debate?

We aren’t a debate site and what were you trying to “debate”, you have an opinion about a hypothetical, how name calling angry and argumentative over it were you wanting to get?