You make a very important point. Hospitals are not going to voluntarily exceed the CDC protocols for ebola, especially when it costs them thousands per hazmat suit. They already will be absorbing the costs of voluntarily closing units, re-working patient flows, setting up more isolation and decontamination areas, etc.
Nurses will be put in the position of refusing to accept an assignment because they do not have the proper equipment to protect themselves. This is a serious ethical dilemma in the real world of nursing. The way it works is when one nurse refuses, another will accept, maybe because of inexperience, lack of assertiveness or guilt over putting ones life above another’s. It will be terrible. Many will just not come to work again.
Mrs. AV
Tort will sort all this out.
Particularly if the uncovered shoes track ebola laden grossness outside of the unit and into the outside world somewhere.