I really don't think people realize how unprepared almost all nurses and and hospitals are (Reply #6)

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Thu Oct 16, 2014, 09:38 PM

6. I really don't think people realize how unprepared almost all nurses and and hospitals are

Just putting on proper PPE (personal protective equipment) to draw blood on a patient with certain infectious patients would cause me to stop and think "Ok, so what order do I remove these items?"

It's not that I wasn't properly trained (I worked as a lab assistant and phlebotomist), it's that we just wore that type of PPEs so infrequently that we'd have to stop and think.

And when nurses are focused on their patients, mistakes happen. I had a needle stick scare with a hep c patient that scared the crap out of me. I can't imagine working with ebola patients.

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7:15 CST NOW Dallas Presbyterian Whistle Blower Speaking on CNN [View all]	TexasMommaWithAHat	Oct 2014	OP
If that is indeed the case, then we should start to see an increase of patients happening	VanillaRhapsody	Oct 2014	#1
Good grief! Even with CDC personnel telling them what to do	TexasMommaWithAHat	Oct 2014	#2
Well, when government is the problem, why listen to it?	truebluegreen	Oct 2014	#3
But government can be the solution, too.	TexasMommaWithAHat	Oct 2014	#4
I agree with you.	truebluegreen	Oct 2014	#5
I really don't think people realize how unprepared almost all nurses and and hospitals are	TexasMommaWithAHat	Oct 2014	#6
Watching Rachel the other night she was talking about The Checklist.	truebluegreen	Oct 2014	#7
It really is not the government's fault the nurses and other staff were ill-prepared. If you can't	kelliekat44	Oct 2014	#8
<sigh> I'm a Democrat.	truebluegreen	Oct 2014	#12
Wait, CDC personnel were actually THERE???	TorchTheWitch	Oct 2014	#10
Yes. Exactly when they got there, I'm not sure	TexasMommaWithAHat	Oct 2014	#14
is there video of this anywhere?	TorchTheWitch	Oct 2014	#15
Checkout Anderson Cooper's Interview with Whistleblower from Dallas Pres	TexasMommaWithAHat	Oct 2014	#16
I was amazed they also had other patients	riverwalker	Oct 2014	#9
YEP! Where in the hell were the doctors?	TexasMommaWithAHat	Oct 2014	#13
Nina Pham on YouTube Thursday	LeftInTX	Oct 2014	#11

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