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Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  Chicago and NYC might be the only two cities besides those with designated hospitals who've been deemed centers of excellence in caring for Ebola patients who are really ready. There seems to be several articles from news agencies where nurses' unions from all over are complaining of inadequate hospital training and protections. Below are just two links but loud complaints are coming from several unions who don't seem to be helping them out that much to date.
But of all the people who should know not to circulate in public after having very close contact with Ebola patients, you would think doctors and nurses would - just until they know this strain of Ebola hasn't mutated and know for sure Romero, Mukpo, Vinson and Pham's close contacts are cleared. And you would think that they would self-quarantine from highly congested, closed-in areas with others! Between Vinson flying after feeling fatigued and starting a fever, Dr. Nancy Snyderman going out for food after Mukpo was diagnosed and during honorary self-quarantine and Dr. Spencer feeling fatigued and then going running, riding in a closed vehicle with another and going to a public bowling alley, some of the healthcare workers don't seem that worried about passing it on.
Still, it's looking like they didn't infect anyone so they are probably right that until they are vomiting, having diarrhe, running fairly high fever or bleeding, they just can't pass along the low level of virus they are incubating early on, though it would doubtless give many less worries to the public if Ebola caregivers would stay out of circulation for 21 days after their last contact with the disease. Nurses to Jerry Brown: California isn?t ready for Ebola | The Sacramento Bee Nurses? Unions Call for Better Ebola Support from CDC - Scientific American |
Two excellent links.... the Nurses Unions in California and New York are the buffers between what all the "suits" are claiming versus what is REALLY going on in hospitals.....when the nurses in those two States step up and say things are good, then I will buy it....until then, it is nothing but talking heads, blowing hot air so they and their city and their hospitals look good.
The nurses will honestly be concerned about the patients as well as themselves and how this disease is managed....the suits are strictly concerned about providing the best protection they can provide, within a set budget....money is their bottom line.
Nurses in any State that do NOT have a union, won't stand up and say what is actually going on, because they will lose their jobs by sundown! That ONE Texas nurse that got out and discussed all the short cuts and failures being made by that Dallas hospital that Pham was infected at.....wondering where she is today! She dropped completely out of sight, didn't she! Sad thing is....if she messes up and does something professionally wrong, like wrong med given, wrong dose given, wrong treatment given, etc and the patient is injured or dies because of it, if she is fired, she can go down the block and get a job at the next hospital within 24 hours. But if she stands up and speaks out about a systemic failure of a hospital, protecting patients or patients or visitors, she will be blackballed and she may not ever get a job in that city or State! That is where nurses unions really step up and protect the people that are trying to protect the public.
When the NURSES in New York, say they are prepared to care for ebola, and that they feel safe and prepared to deliver that care that is needed, I will feel confident about what is ACTUALLY going on. Your Mayor, Your Governor the CDC or the Director of the hospital are all coming from a position of getting the most they can get, as cheaply as possible.....