Ebola

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You made a good point PCG.

Nurses call for more training in Ebola fight
**AUSTIN — Most health care workers here have long known about the Ebola virus, but never had to deal with it.
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In that sense, “Ebola is new to us,” said Cindy Zolnierek, executive director of the Texas Nurses Association.

Now one of their own is sickened with Ebola. While Zolnierek said Nina Pham is “in our thoughts,” she added that many nurses also are thinking of their own health.
“They are concerned… and they should be,” said Stacey Cropley, director of Practice at the Texas Nurses Association.
That organization — which represents more than 7,000 Texas nurses — is calling for more training, and is urging health care workers to speak up to hospital management whenever they have questions or concerns about safety.

“The only way you do that is to get people comfortable with being transparent,” said Joyce Batcheller, nurse and president of CNO Solutions, a health care executive recruitment company.
She said fostering the kind of transparency that might help make the Ebola response better starts by investigating when things go wrong, but avoiding the blame game. Many health care workers weren’t happy with recent comments by Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Protection, that the Dallas nurse contracted Ebola after a “breach in protocol.”
“When you say there was a ‘breach,’ that sounds like the nurse thought, ‘Let me mess this up,’ and that’s not true,” Batcheller said.
Pham, 26, became infected while treating Thomas Eric Duncan, the first Ebola patient to die in the USA. Pham is the first person known to contract the disease in the USA.
She issued a brief statement through Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital saying she is “doing well” and thanking the medical team providing her care.
“I’m doing well and want to thank everyone for their kind wishes and prayers,” the statement said. “I am blessed by the support of family and friends and am blessed to be cared for by the best team of doctors and nurses in the world here.”
Frieden said Tuesday that officials have thus far failed to determine how Pham contracted the virus during treatment of Duncan.
Officials with the Texas Nurses Association are speaking out, hoping to give voice to the professionals who work silently inside the hazmat suits doing the hard, stressful and often dirty work.
Those who have come into contact with Ebola patients at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas have been required to shower after each patient interaction. Their colleagues have been banding together to make that precautionary procedure a little less of a chore.
“The other nurses are buying them high-end bath products, so there is that kind of caretaking that is really wonderful to see,” Zolnierek said.
Contributing: John Bacon and Liz Szabo, USA TODAY
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Are you guys aware that in most hospitals in the US, the nurses do not answer to the doctors in the hospitals. The nurses answer to their nursing administrators who then answer to the administrators of the hospital. THEY DO NOT ANSWER TO DOCTORS.

Therefore, the nurse training/education, etc needs to come from the administration, not the physicians. If the physicians are blamed for not teaching the nurses, I’m going to burst a vein on this one, because we doctors have been slapped in the face historically by nursing, they do not LET US teach them, or SUPERVISE them.

If I see a nurse putting on gear improperly for a routine infection like c-diff that is all over every hospital, I will actually GET IN TROUBLE.

SO WHY ARE THE NURSES GETTING ON TV TEARFUL?

Imaan se someone needs a slap.