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nurses – Welcome to the Mind of a Writer https://www.sharonkgilbert.com Official website of Author and Analyst Sharon K. Gilbert Wed, 12 Nov 2014 14:08:14 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://i0.wp.com/www.sharonkgilbert.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/cropped-cropped-RWS-Logo-1.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 nurses – Welcome to the Mind of a Writer https://www.sharonkgilbert.com 32 32 72596817 US nurses to protest, strike over Ebola measures | Fox News https://www.sharonkgilbert.com/ebola/us-nurses-to-protest-strike-over-ebola-measures-fox-news/ Wed, 12 Nov 2014 14:08:14 +0000 https://sharonkgilbert.com/?p=2706 [G]ood for them! Nurses and nursing assistants are on the frontline when it comes to combating disease, and these bright and brave women and men deserve topnotch training and protective garments. Go, nurses!

US nurses to protest, strike over Ebola measures | Fox News.

]]> 2706 Kaiser Nurses in California Plan to Strike Over Ebola – Bloomberg https://www.sharonkgilbert.com/ebola/kaiser-nurses-in-california-plan-to-strike-over-ebola-bloomberg/ Sun, 09 Nov 2014 19:05:38 +0000 https://sharonkgilbert.com/?p=2665 [T]his just in…if you live in California and need a nurse, you may find yourself out of luck. Nurses in the Kaiser Permanente hospital chain have decided to strike until their demands for Ebola training are met. Who can blame these brave women and men? So far, the training and equipment provided has been confusing if not entirely missing, so let’s make sure our frontline healthcare workers are well trained and well protected!

Some 18,000 nurses in Northern California are planning a two-day strike starting Nov. 11, partly over equipment and training standards for the Ebola virus.

Read more via Kaiser Nurses in California Plan to Strike Over Ebola – Bloomberg.

]]> 2665 Too Much Protective Gear? Really? https://www.sharonkgilbert.com/biological-threats/too-much-protective-gear-really/ Thu, 16 Oct 2014 13:20:44 +0000 https://sharonkgilbert.com/?p=2529 [N]ot surprisingly,  Texas Health Presbyterian is fighting back this morning, protesting claims made yesterday by the Nurses’ Union in Texas that staff at Texas Health were given inadequate training and equipment. But Tom Frieden had this to say:

Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, also said that breaches of protocols led to the infection of the two nurses, but added that nurses were wearing too much protective gear, increasing the difficulty of suiting up properly and increasing the risk of contamination while undressing. [emphasis added]

Yes, he actually said the nurses had ‘too much’ protection against a BSL-4 pathogen. The nurses had complained that protocol used while treating Thomas Eric Duncan left their necks exposed, and that they were told to ‘use medical tape’, which is permeable. With a virus that is measured in nanometers, you don’t want permeable, but you do want ‘covered’.

Healthcare cannot exist without nurses, so I suspect that both Texas Health and Frieden will be eating their words soon. In fact, the CDC’s response to the US outbreak hasn’t been stellar, so it wouldn’t surprise me to find Frieden resigning soon. It’s a shame to see anyone ‘take the fall’, but honestly, the CDC should have sent in a team right away or insisted that Duncan be evacuated to Emory right away.

Read the entire morning report via ​Ebola: Texas hospital denies breach of protocols – CBS News.

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