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Originally Posted by Yorkiemom1  
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..... |
Well, she was on every network for two or three day and even the weekend plus countless news articles online - I guess she got her message out, hospitals began seeing the handwriting on the wall, the news agencies lost interest and decided to wait on the outcomes of investigations. Presby has long been recognized in Dallas for its poor medical practices and had among Medicare's highest fines in the area for re-admissions. Thankfully, not all hospital are like Presby/Dallas but Chicago, NYC, Boston, Houston, L.A. and every large city have their own versions of it, too.
I think the US is the third largest country in the whole world by population(almost 320 million), yet in the last many years we have no raging epidemics of viruses, plagues, MRSA, etc. We're a huge country and I wonder how in the world it is we rarely have any epidemic really get out of hand? I heard Ebola is 50 - 90% deadly yet we're seeing a number of Ebola patients treated here showing a strikingly lesser percentage of death.
Heck, thousands of people die of flu each year and still Americans won't even get a flu shot, they are so certain of our healthcare delivery system supporting them should they get very ill. So Americans don't even think flu is ever out of hand. And I'll bet if there is ever an Ebola vaccine, most Americans won't get it either.