Posted on 10/15/2014 4:29:12 PM PDT by maggief
The nurses’ union National Nurses United spoke out today with some serious criticisms of the way the government has been handling the Ebola outbreak. This comes on the day it was revealed a second health care worker who was treating Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital patient Thomas Duncan has contracted Ebola. This nurse is being sent to Emory for treatment.
Union president RoseAnne DeMoro called these past few weeks “a nightmare” for nurses across the country and said, “We’ve been told a lot of things that have been wrong. We’ve been lied to, in terms of the preparation and the hospitals, and we know this because the nurses are telling us this and the nurses are the ones taking care of the patients.”
She said the White House and CDC have ignored their concerns and found it outrageous that the onus is on nurses instead of the government to have the proper protocols in place to protect health care workers.
(Excerpt) Read more at mediaite.com ...
Good thing this is the first time the government has lied, think of the damage to America, if government deception became the norm.
But then, the mainstream media would immediately uncover it and warn Americans, as is their duty.
We should have known that this was going to be a disaster when we saw the janitors at the first victim’s power washing the puke down the storm drain.
Wouldn’t one expect the government to come swooping in with hazmat everything? Kind of like when the ATF sends it’s goons in to harass gun store owners? I guess the CDC is all about the bureaucracy....
I like that POSPOTUS acronym.
The nurses had to put tape around their necks! I heard this reported on CNN - they said they were unsure how to remove the tape safely.
from the hypertext link to the full statement:
Initial nurses who interacted with Mr. Duncan nurses wore a non-impermeable gown front and back, three pairs of gloves, with no taping around wrists, surgical masks, with the option of N-95s, and face shields. Some supervisors said that even the N-95 masks were not necessary.
The suits they were given still exposed their necks, the part closest to their face and mouth. They had suits with booties and hoods, three pairs of gloves, no tape.
For their necks, nurses had to use medical tape, that is not impermeable and has permeable seams, to wrap around their necks in order to protect themselves, and had to put on the tape and take it off on their own.
http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/entry/national-nurses-united-endorses-president-obama/
They get what they paid for....
For once I agree with a union.
But I wonder who they endorsed during the last two Presidential elections.
No need to anser, I think we know.
I worked for a public employees union for years, and believe me, they lick their chops at calamities like this; all for gain in membership.
Insightful pepsi junkie... that's a good catch. Reminds me of this phrase: "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned..."
See my post after this one of yours.
That’s what union members, especially public employee union members, do. Being a nurse or a teacher, etc., used to be a profession, but now it is just becoming a union “worker’s” paradise.
Your post is absolutely dead on.
Any lay person could become quite proficient in these “protocols” with about an hour of internet study.
For degreed medical folks to wait for a CDC bureaucrat to instruct them is nuts.
Anybody who believes ANYTHING this regime says really doesn’t have the right. JMO.
Just like a battered wife sticks to her man, they’ll still vote for Obama stooges ...
....And you can be sure the money is not largely spent on the problem. Every crisis is seen as a way as bilking more money out of Americans to launder into their and their cronies back pockets. I am sure that Americans would be astounded to find out how much of our money has found its way into their nasty, filthy, evil pockets.
She said the problem was that we had a ‘for-profit health care system ....
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