Help me bring this into the public!

I absolutely will not sign that petition. She is asymptomatic, has tested negative twice for ebola showing no discernible sign of the virus in her blood. No way I am going to advocate that this nurse lose her license.

She has stated she will use the courts to fight her quarantine. That is the way she should go about it if she is this against it.

Actually I agree with her 100%. Everything I stand on as a nurse is respect and dignity and not overreacting to news and common media reports.

If you find yourself in Ohio let me know Kacie and I will buy you lunch.

The White House doesn't issue or revoke licenses in any case.

I'll sign it. This is ridiculous. As a nurse, I am appalled by her actions. I don't care if she tested negative 15 times, if she is still within her 21 days she needs to toughen up and shut up. Good grief, it's only 21 days. If she is this bullheaded about something like this amidst an international crisis, I can only imagine how she is as a nurse. Everyone was complaining that enough wasn't being done, and now that someone is being proactive it's a problem. If that were me, and I can back from a heavily infected area, I would voluntarily quarantine myself in a tent because I would be too paranoid to be around my husband and children during that time frame.

I'm seriously considering starting a petition to have the licenses revoked for every nurse who bases his or her professional decisions on personal opinions and beliefs, rather than on science/research.

I thought I'd seen it all...

"There's a petition on a to have nurse Kaci Hickox's license revoked for refusing quarantine after working directly with Ebola patients in West africa.

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You'll have a rough time in your FNP research classes if you stand by public opinion for setting policy.

There are lots of practices I wish were evidence-based, but they aren't. Yanking licenses from highly trained, humanitarian, do-gooder nurses with Masters in Public Health (i.e., her healthcare knowledge far outranked all those who imprisoned her) is not on my political activism to-do list.

Are her 21 days up yet? Nope. Theres your science.

I will absolutely not sign that petition.

Are her 21 days up yet? Nope. Theres your science.

So you don’t accept that an asymptomatic person isn’t infectious but have no trouble believing that the maximum incubation period is in fact 21 days? Do you have some kind of system for picking and choosing which research and empirical data you decide to believe in and which you choose to ignore?

A petition to the White House (has no authority over state nursing licensure, that is relegated to the state board of nursing as supported by the attorney general (if charges or enforcement is needed)) to remove a nurse's license for bucking a hysterical response to an epidemic seems counterproductive.

I do not agree with her public statements or how she is going about the PR throwing a public tantrum. Her response could be more professional by citing EBP and experience to boost her case. Because I think the one TV interview I saw make her seem dramatic & histrionic does not mean I think there is cause to rescind her license to practice nursing.

A White House petition in this scenario is inappropriate and the wrong forum.