EBOLA Nurses union to Obama: Enforce Ebola protections at hospitals

[LilRose8]

http://fortune.com/2014/10/22/nurses-union-ebola/


The largest union of registered nurses is calling for mandatory Ebola training at hospitals.

This week, registered nurses will gather in cities across the country—from Bangor, Maine, to St. Louis to Sacramento—to call on the Obama administration and Congress to institute standards for protecting front-line healthcare workers from Ebola.

The rallies, which have been organized by National Nurses United, the nation’s largest union for registered nurses, are the latest in a series of actions the group has taken to protect nurses from the virus since—as NNU co-president Deborah Burger puts it—“our worst fears were realized.”

Burger is referring to the disclosure last week that two nurses who had treated U.S. Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas had themselves contracted the disease.

In that wake of that news, the 185,000-member NNU staged a nationwide conference call to discuss hospitals’ readiness to respond to Ebola—11,500 nurses dialed in—and sent a letter to President Barack Obama, calling for him to order all hospitals to meet the highest “uniform, national standards and protocols.”

The NNU’s campaign is an extension of that demand and is aimed at collecting signatures for a petition that asks President Obama and Congress to mandate uniform protocols for treating Ebola patients.

 

[library lady]

Hope they call for a mandatory quarantine for those who have been in contact with an Ebola patient, and a travel ban from West Africa.

 

[dhelman47]

I think that if obolo and the rest of the liberals do not support the nurses they should all go on strike and not show up for work, and we people as a whole should stand with them and say no more. Shut the borders no more flights in or out of ebola infected nations. It is time to protect our own especially our children. Enough of this nonsense lets put a halt to this if our elected officials do not it is on our shoulders. As a matter of fact the airline pilots and employees should refuse to fly into or out of these infected areas.

 

[LilRose8]

Maybe we need a quarantine for the JERKS who are asking this of us, WITH some active Ebola patients.

 

[Nowski]

To the poor nurses that are on the front lines in dealing
with the ebola disaster, and trying to get the government
to listen to them. I would say good luck with that.

As for that PPE in that pic, the one on the right looks to be PPE-3 at best.
A positive pressure moon suit is needed for ebola.

Prayers for the nurses, they will need all that they can get.

Be safe everyone.

Regards to all,
Nowski

 

[Garryowen]

The Fed is the source of the problem. It is NOT the solution.

 

[DustMusher]

Hey. Just start calling the L4 gear Medical Worker's burkas and he will fall all over themselves getting the gear. Training would be OJT.

Just preach "it's for the CHILDREN". Seems to work for their projects.

DM

 

[Emcomus]

Took my wife in the ER today (she threw a 3mm kidney stone)...ANYWAY...nurse said "I sure wouldn't want to be a patient like you in the hospital"; when I asked why? She quipped "Well with that Ebola, hospital's aren't the best place to be". I told her well the BUFFALO EVENING NEWS said that our regional hospitals are equipped to handle an out break...she assured me that we are not.

 

[MinnesotaSmith]

Related -- Spanish medical staff refuse to treat Ebola patients amid fears of infection
Carlos III hospital, where seven quarantined cases are being treated, drafts in extra staff after nurses refuse to turn up for shifts

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...t-Ebola-patients-amid-fears-of-infection.html

Scared medical staff in Madrid refused to treat possible Ebola patients on Thursday for fear of becoming infected themselves, as the condition of the Spanish nurse who contracted the virus deteriorated further.

The Carlos III hospital, where seven quarantined cases are being treated, has had to draft in extra staff after nurses there refused to turn up for shifts.

“There are members of staff who are cancelling their contracts so that they don’t have to enter [rooms with possible Ebola patients],” said Elvira Gonzalez of the SAE nurses union

Although no formal absentee figures have been released, a number of nurses and health technicians have formally resigned from their posts, while others have made excuses to avoid going into work.

“A lot of people are calling in sick,” one member of staff told El Pais newspaper. “They are saying they have period pains, or that they feel dizzy. People are anxious and can’t be expected to work like that.”



Staff members who have agreed to work in the hospital’s isolation ward are receiving psychological counselling.

The row came as Maria Teresa Romero Ramos, the Spanish nurse who is the first person to contract Ebola outside Africa, suffered multiple organ failure and was put on a ventilator.

“Her clinical situation has deteriorated,” said a spokesman for the Carlos III hospital where Mrs Ramos, 44, was being treated, while her brother informed reporters that she had been intubated.

“We don’t have great hopes for her,” Jose Ramon Romero Ramos said in an interview with local television.

Madrid regional president Ignacio Gonzalez told parliament Mrs Ramos “is at this time very ill and her life is at serious risk as a consequence of the virus.”

Meanwhile, one of the doctors who treated Mrs Ramos when she was admitted to her local hospital in Alcorcon on Monday, gave a damning account of the failure to isolate Mrs Romero and protect health workers from infection in an open letter to health chiefs.

Dr Juan Manuel Parra Ramirez, who voluntarily admitted himself into quarantine on Wednesday evening fearing that he too had been infected, said it wasn’t until hours after he first requested “immediate action” to isolate her that she was finally transferred to the specialist unit equipped to deal with Ebola patients at Carlos III hospital.

He also said the full protective suit he was issued with had left his bare skin exposed. “At all times the sleeves were too short,” he wrote.

While the European Commission asked for a fuller explanation as to how Mrs Romero’s infection happened in a high-security ward Madrid health chiefs laid the blame for her becoming infected on “human error” and insisted that procedures to avoid contagion remained intact.

“It’s obvious that the patient herself has recognised that she did not strictly follow the protocol,” Ruben Moreno, spokesman for health for the ruling Popular Party.

Mrs Romero has admitted that she most likely became infected with Ebola after accidentally touching her face while removing the biohazard protection suit after a visit to the room of the missionary priest, Manuel Garcia Viejo, who died on September 25.

Four people were put into quarantine on Thursday, bringing the total number of those hospitalised, including the nurse’s husband and several doctors who treated her, to seven. A further 84 people were being monitored in their own homes.

 

[VesperSparrow]

Obola can't even enforce the CONSTITUTION...what makes them think he gives a rat's ass about THEM?
But don't worry.
When the health care workers die or QUIT, Obola has an entire ARMY of illegal immigrants ready to take their places....