Bus Disaster

BamaBound2bRN · Sep 23, 2005

This infuriates me more than I can express here. What makes me even angrier is that the bozos who organized this haphazrd way to transport these frail people will most likely get a slap on the wrist. :angryfire
I am contacting our DON and asking what type of transportation we have in place should we need to evacuate our residents via transportation.

Why is it that we always have to look for blame in times like these? What infuriates me is the double-speak. When the nursing home in LA was flooded killing all inside, we blamed the nursing home for not loading them up and busing them out. Now we want to blame someone for this bus accident! If they were in an ambulance and the ambulance wrecked and killed someone would we then look for someone else to blame. Unless there was GROSS wrong doing on someones part, why not look for ways to HELP. If you want to blame someone for something, how about blaming God for the hurricane, or Columbus for discovering America (even if he was 3rd or 4th to do it) which enabled people to build homes so close to the ocean, or maybe we can blame Henry Ford for the automobile industry which lead to the need for oil/gasoline which created the long lines of traffic...............................see where we are going simply by looking for someone to blame.........................so, I will accept ALL RESPONSIBILITY for the hurricanes and deaths!! Now let's get on to lending a helping hand where and when we can! :balloons:

txspadequeenRN, BSN, RN · Sep 23, 2005

I understand that you are upset these people died, but how else could they be transported. Any way you go they have to have their O2.

This infuriates me more than I can express here. What makes me even angrier is that the bozos who organized this haphazrd way to transport these frail people will most likely get a slap on the wrist. :angryfire
I am contacting our DON and asking what type of transportation we have in place should we need to evacuate our residents via transportation.

txspadequeenRN, BSN, RN · Sep 23, 2005

I was getting kinda mad when I first started reading this but now I just have to laugh because I get what you are talking about.....:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Why is it that we always have to look for blame in times like these? What infuriates me is the double-speak. When the nursing home in LA was flooded killing all inside, we blamed the nursing home for not loading them up and busing them out. Now we want to blame someone for this bus accident! If they were in an ambulance and the ambulance wrecked and killed someone would we then look for someone else to blame. Unless there was GROSS wrong doing on someones part, why not look for ways to HELP. If you want to blame someone for something, how about blaming God for the hurricane, or Columbus for discovering America (even if he was 3rd or 4th to do it) which enabled people to build homes so close to the ocean, or maybe we can blame Henry Ford for the automobile industry which lead to the need for oil/gasoline which created the long lines of traffic...............................see where we are going simply by looking for someone to blame.........................so, I will accept ALL RESPONSIBILITY for the hurricanes and deaths!! Now let's get on to lending a helping hand where and when we can! :balloons:

FroggysMom · Sep 23, 2005

This infuriates me more than I can express here. What makes me even angrier is that the bozos who organized this haphazrd way to transport these frail people will most likely get a slap on the wrist. :angryfire
I totally agree! It's obvious to everyone but those who are purposely short sighted that our country is in no way, shape or form ready to contend with disasters, either nature or man-made. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that these actions were a disaster looking for a place to happen and unfortunately, it happened here with tragic results. If this had happened on a bus full of politicians, I bet it would be addressed right quick then.
:angryfire

directcare4me · Sep 23, 2005

This infuriates me more than I can express here. What makes me even angrier is that the bozos who organized this haphazrd way to transport these frail people will most likely get a slap on the wrist. :angryfire
I totally agree! It's obvious to everyone but those who are purposely short sighted that our country is in no way, shape or form ready to contend with disasters, either nature or man-made. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that these actions were a disaster looking for a place to happen and unfortunately, it happened here with tragic results. If this had happened on a bus full of politicians, I bet it would be addressed right quick then.
:angryfire
How would you address it?

Jolie, BSN · Sep 23, 2005

This infuriates me more than I can express here. What makes me even angrier is that the bozos who organized this haphazrd way to transport these frail people will most likely get a slap on the wrist. :angryfire
I totally agree! It's obvious to everyone but those who are purposely short sighted that our country is in no way, shape or form ready to contend with disasters, either nature or man-made. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that these actions were a disaster looking for a place to happen and unfortunately, it happened here with tragic results. If this had happened on a bus full of politicians, I bet it would be addressed right quick then.
:angryfire
So how do you propose to safely and quickly evacuate the thousands of residents of nursing homes and other care facilities within a metropolitan area of nearly 5 million residents?
This is a tragic accident. It is a shame that dozens of elderly people were lost or seriously injured, but I haven't heard anyone come up with a better or more practical solution. Ambulances can't possibly evacuate everyone on 02. How many hundreds of runs into and out of the city would be required to evacuate them all? It is simply not do-able. Of course, transporting fragile elderly people on buses is not ideal, but nothing IS ideal under the conditions of a mandatory evacuation.