Basic principles of common sense, too:
Posted on 10/16/2014 7:25:49 AM PDT by TigerClaws
A nurse at the Texas hospital where two of her colleagues contracted Ebola has blasted the center, saying it violated basic safety principles and put patients and staff at risk.
“I can no longer defend my hospital,” Briana Aguirre — a nurse who treated friend and co-worker Nina Pham — told the Today show. “They should have known that they were not handling this well. They should have known this was getting out of hand.
“I watched them violate basic principles of nursing care,” she added. When faced with the question of what she would do if she started displaying symptoms of Ebola, a tearful Aguirre said there was no way she would ever go to Texas Health.
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You can imagine the treatment at an average U.S. hospital or charity or a V.A....
could it be that this hospital gives excellent care in other ways, but that it is not set up to be an Ebola treatment center? Just a thought. Is any hospital anywhere in America really set up to handle Ebola? Good question for that dude at the Center for Disease Control.
A nurse lacking confidence is not a good indicator.
The one at Nebraska (where Sacra was treated and where the NBC cameraman is) was set up to handle at max 20 civilians. It was set up after 9/11 to handle bioterrorism and was considered a “folly” because it’s been empty for these past 13 years. It is one of only 3 or 4 in the US that can handle this emergency.
Praise God for leaders with foresight and grit to get hard things done!
She can expect a tax audit from this corrupt administration.
Listen to the nurses, they’re on the front lines of this thing. God bless them, especially the ones working on the infectious disease floor.
I know there are capable and smart epidemiologists at CDC.
When is one of them going to resign and speak out? Are they all just whores waiting on a cushy pension?
They are wold class doctors. They can earn a living anywhere anytime. Are they afraid or have they lost all their principles?
I can honestly say that I would have screamed from the rooftops days ago if I were there and a medical professional.
Have all people everywhere lost all their principles?
Amazing aint it?
Firestone Plantation in Liberia beat down Ebola with expedient treatment centers. It doesn’t take a gazillion dollars. Just common sense. We seem to have none of that around any more.
Poor woman. Now will be permanently unemployed. I could name names and point out the public school officials who were totally incompetent with evidence, but would be attacked by national teacher unions and life would be hell. Not worth it. Leaving it all to God. If He decides to do something about it fine. If not, all my efforts will be in vain.
“She can expect a tax audit from this corrupt administration.”
Not at all. The current talking point is to attack ‘for profit’ hospitals as incapable of providing decent medical care.
Because you and I both know if a case gets into the VA it will be much better. /s
Might be better.
The smaller hospitals know they are not “World class” and don’t have the hubris.
If they do that, they will never work anywhere again.
They'll be going up against bureaucracies that can and will violate any and all legal and ethical standards in retaliation, with impunity. Any attempt to hold them accountable only results in all the evidence disappearing.
Upon opening the equipment, I found the mechanism had been jammed by paychecks and personal equipment like cell phones being stored in a compartment too small for them.
I photographed it with my phone, showed her the problem, and said, "I'd probably have my attorney ask why these items were interfering with delivery of lifesaving medications in a critical care unit."
Never had that problem again in their hospital.
For profit hospitals care more about money than patients. Affirmative action entrants into professional schools reduce quality professionals.
Current professional training often done by for profit schools turning out graduates like M and Ms.
Current protocols ignore basics, like handwashing and sterile equipment and quarantines.
Don’t know if above is applicable to CDC doc or Texas Presbyterian head and staff, but would not be surprising if is.
Smells like Obamaphile talk. Blame the private sector.
The real victim, the nurse who HAS Ebola, praised the hospital.
Carelessness is inexcusable!
One significant problem with stopping Ebola is that Ebola first kills the medical personnel trying to treat it.
In Afrika, Ebola is known as the “nurse killer.”
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