Posted on 10/15/2014 8:05:00 AM PDT by tcrlaf
A Liberian Ebola patient was left in an open area of a Dallas emergency room for hours, and the nurses treating him worked for days without proper protective gear and faced constantly changing protocols, according to a statement released late Tuesday by the largest U.S. nurses' union.
Nurses were forced to use medical tape to secure openings in their flimsy garments, worried that their necks and heads were exposed as they cared for a patient with explosive diarrhea and projectile vomiting, said Deborah Burger of National Nurses United. SNIP----
The nurses alleged that: -Duncan was kept in a non-isolated area of the emergency department for several hours, potentially exposing up to seven other patients to Ebola.
-Patients who may have been exposed to Duncan were kept in isolation only for a day before being moved to areas where there were other patients.
-Nurses treating Duncan were also caring for other patients in the hospital.
-Preparation for Ebola at the hospital amounted to little more than an optional seminar for staff.
-In the face of constantly shifting guidelines, nurses were allowed to follow whichever ones they chose.
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You can't call the locals incompetent, if they were following the recommendations of the Feds.
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS has almost killed these people.
Explosive diarrhea & projectile vomiting - we have not yet begun to feel the effects of the Progressives’ policies.
Don’t worry...Tom Frieden will be on teevee for another 7 hours solid today. It’s the best way to prevent the spread of disease.
And in the Obama world, the problem is now nurses who speak. Expect gag orders issued at hospitals now, courtesy of the closest federal judge.
explosive diarrhea and projectile vomiting...? That’s what I had the day he was elected!
Federalize the hospitals. Now there's a thought.
This can’t be right. Criminal negligence, which is hard to believe with medical professionals at a hospital like Presbyterian. I can’t even understand how Duncan was released the first time, even I would have had sirens go off upon hearing the word “Liberia”
I understand they can’t get things 100% right all the time, but good grief, this is just unbelievable.
a patient with explosive diarrhea and projectile vomiting,
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has Obama hugged the family in the Rose garden yet ???
if not that’s rasiss......
The VA hospital system is well positioned to take over all the private hospitals!
That’s why I always go to Baylor.
I would have walked out the door of that Hospital to a safe distance, put up a picket sign and started giving interviews. If this story is true, then what happened in inexplicably insane!
Here's proof on the nurses' necks being exposed at THPH as they are wheeling in the deputy.
Totally unprotected THPH staff surrounding deputy.
Ok, no doubt some things were done wrong. On the other hand, it is a union making the claim. So I expect that some claims are blown way out of proportion.
http://www.breakingnews.com/topic/africa-ebola-outbreak-2014/
CDC, Frontier Airlines say 2nd healthcare worker with Ebola traveled by air on Oct. 13 - @NBCNews
This is what Sissy Boy Frieden said around Sept. 30
“”We’re stopping it in its tracks in this country,” Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, declared during a news conference Tuesday afternoon.
The man who is infected, who was not identified, left Liberia on Sept. 19 and arrived in the U.S. the following day to visit family members. Health officials are working to identify everyone who may have been exposed to this man. Frieden said this covered just a “handful” of people, a group that will be watched for three weeks to see if any symptoms emerge.
“The bottom line here is that I have no doubt that we will control this importation, or this case of Ebola, so that it does not spread widely in this country,” Frieden said. “It is certainly possible that someone who had contact with this individual could develop Ebola in the coming weeks. But there is no doubt in my mind that we will stop it here.”
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