RedWeasel RN

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About RedWeasel

RedWeasel has 19 years experience as a RN and specializes in RN CRRN.


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    Coronavirus (COVID-19): We Want to Hear from You

    They have downgraded our precautions saying a paper gown and paper mask is enough. (See link in previous post). I don’t know what I would do. It is under the FAQ for HCPs on CDC site today. But they also say they dont know how longnit lives on surfac...
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    Coronavirus (COVID-19): We Want to Hear from You

    They now want us to use paper gowns and masks With this: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/infection-control/infection-prevention-control-faq.html
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    Ethical Dilemma- Denying Care

    If they tried to make me use droplet precautions...then yes. Give me every kind of PPE within reason and no problem!
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    Amber Vinson has obtained a high power attorney

    I honestly think the cdc with their recommendations to use droplet precautions are at fault. Hospital - and most others in the country had stocked paper gowns masks and face shields for an ebola response. This could have happened anywhere. Just so ha...
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    NEW EBOLA CSZAR Ron Klain

    I believe an excellent interim czar (or interim head of CDC if Tom Frieden steps down) or even an advisor to the czar would be Dr Brantly. He is still getting his strength back though I am sure. He would be such a great resource on this...knowing ebo...
  6. It isn't Droplet Precautions that is for sure. No skin is exposed. They wear a positive pressure suit. Google the words "Biocontainment level 4." A CDC link will come up (among others - ignore those) in your search. They explain precautions for the...
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    Toward a Level 4 Protocol for Ebola

    Please everyone, refuse to go into or work with a patient with suspected ebola unless protected in better PPE. PPE to the level of Biosafety Level 4 scientists. Please insist we are all protected at least in a respirator with NO SKIN exposed. We des...
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    "Houston we have a problem" This just got very real

    Scientists in a level 4 biohazard (research the 4 different levels - you will be surprised) containment labe wear airborne precautions due to it's virulence. That is just so they can work with it in a quiet little petri dish. We are expected to work...
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    Toward a Level 4 Protocol for Ebola

    How can scientists suit up in the hazmat suits in the level 4 biohazard/containment lab at the CDC in order to work with Ebola in a petri dish, but nurses were even allowed to go in with just a gown gloves and mask to treat a patient with diarrhea et...
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    URGENT: Are CDC Ebola Guidelines 'Good Enough'?

    Oops I meant NO they don't have it right. At All. CDC Director should step down.
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    URGENT: Are CDC Ebola Guidelines 'Good Enough'?

    NO - because in a different NY Times article they compare even current, as opposed to last week's, CDC guidelines used by some of the U.S.'s four biocontainment unit hospitals like Nebraska Medical Center and North Shore in New Jersey. CDC still reco...
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    Second ebola nurse "okay'd" to fly

    NBC is reporting she may have been more symptomatic on the flight than previously reported. Another source said her illness was more progressed than Pham when diagnosed. Could she have been symptomatic gastrointestinally when she called the CDC and t...
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    "Houston we have a problem" This just got very real

    Exactly. I just think it is the CDCs job for it to be on the radar...twenty years ago. They needed plans in place. Ten plus 'teams' ready to fly out to whatever hospital gets the index patient to take over care of that patient. Do not leave it up to ...
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    URGENT: Are CDC Ebola Guidelines 'Good Enough'?

    I can't believe the CDC has a poster to doff PPE by removing gloves, then reach up to your face wearing a dirty gown to remove face shield and mask, then remove dirty gown -after you have reached up to your head/face with soiled isolation gown sleev...
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    GoFundMe account for Nina Pham RN

    Aren't all of her possessions being incinerated? She will need all new? All new scrubs? Everything? I am not sure of course but they took out barrels of biohazard 'things.' I don't think the hospital will pay for any of that?