Posted on 10/09/2014 2:58:42 PM PDT by 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.
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Why go into nursing if you are too cowardly to treat sick people?
Some people do not do well treating patients who are terminal. Some do not do well with children. Some don’t want to die. Some like living on the edge. Some like delivering babies. Some hate babies. Etc.
Nurses shouldn’t quit because they have to treat sick people.
Like soldiers who refuse to serve in dangerous areas, they obviously went into the wrong profession.
“Why go into nursing if you are too cowardly to treat sick people?”
I would call it a strategic retreat. With ebola, treating a sure dead patient means death, so better to retreat than to spread ebola further.
“Ultimately this decision will be made by health care workers, people who clean airplanes, mortuary workers, etc.”
If Ebola gets real bad, lots of services may go down (water, electric, police, fire, grocery stores, etc.) Either risk of getting Ebola from the public or their co-workers. Or they have it themselves. Or they are staying home with someone that is sick. Or they are under quarantine.
This isn’t about personal fear. If I get stuck by a needle and get HIV, well that sucks, but it’s what I signed up for.
I didn’t sign up to catch a virus that once caught, puts my children at extreme risk of at least being without a parent, but also probably in jeopardy of life and limb as well.
Call me a coward all you want. I’ve been called much worse. I’m an RN and I’ll be damned if I’m going to put my 6 and 1 yr old children living under my roof in that kind of jeopardy.
No job is worth that.
If this becomes more than an isolated event and if the current trend continues of health care providers being at risk, then you can expect healthcare providers to walk off the job by the tens and hundreds of thousands.
Even when I was on active duty, it was my own life I place in harm’s way. My FRiend, you’ve seriously miscalculated bravery by extended it to include acts that place my immediate family at risk.
The analogy that you go if you’re so brave wasn’t apt. Send your children.
So you signed up willing to deal with sticking yourself with a needle, but not willing to treat sick people.
If the medical people all quit medicine because they refuse to treat people who might have Ebola, then they will be responsible for it engulfing everyone, and that goes for all the other sicknesses and diseases that need people who know how to operate hospitals and medicine.
I hope it is just you, and that you don’t infect others with your panic, perhaps you should just stay silent and get out of nursing.
No, Americans with Ebola are clearly not guaranteed dead, nor are the people who treat them.
“Americans with Ebola are clearly not guaranteed dead, nor are the people who treat them.”
Well, that is reassuring. /s
Nothing in life, or in this case, death, is guaranteed. But the margin of error while treating ebola is pretty low; a droplet of bodily fluid while changing the damn suit can be fatal, as evidenced by the nurse’s death. Everybody has to manage risks. In this case, the risk of contracting and dying of Ebola is higher than the payoff of the ebola “victim” actually surviving. Suicide is wrong.
You can wax as noble as you want about how you think people should act.
I’m talking reality. I hear this same conversation a dozen times a day.
It’s a bridge too far to ask someone to risk their children’s lives for any profession.
Your pejoratives from afar won’t change reality.
Some nurses change jobs to less stressful ones. Some nurses have children and change jobs for family reasons.
We spent three weeks in an ICU last year. Most of the nurses are young, unmarried, and able to handle dealing with patients who are going to die. This particular unit sees a lot of death. It is not an easy job. A lot of nurses simply cannot do that particular job and stay sane. All nurses are not created equal. We want it that way.
Nurses are FREE to go to different employment. Soldiers have commitments that are more binding.
You are talking about yourself, I just hope you don’t try to spread your panic to the rest of the nurses.
I know nurses very well, of course they change jobs and so on, but they don’t suddenly flee nursing when the sick start arriving, seeking help.
Yeah, I heard about that.
You are correct, protecting your children comes first.
It is already there. Just talk to a few.
Yet, the US is sending Infantry troops, with no help in combating any infection. There is NO HELP FOR THESE SOLDIERS, once in country. There is no ex-fil.
Ours is not to reason why
Ours is not to make reply
Ours is but to do and die
Most of us are not so much worried about ourselves, but about bringing the disease to small children dependent on us.
a remf like you calling someone a coward, that’s rich.
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