I Signed the Petition, Won't You?

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THANK YOU FOR HELPING PROTECT OUR NATION'S HEALTHCARE WORKERS

AGAINST EBOLA AND OTHER INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Please forward this petition to friends, family, and others who can help healthcare workers

Link to this petition: http://www.nationalnursesunited.org/page/s/national-nurses-united-urges-you-to-take-action-now

Everything in the petition is quite reasonable. Nurses should be at the forefront of effecting change when it comes to this and other infectious disease issues. I have been, sadly, not surprised by the lack of hospital and CDC control and competence re: safe standards of practice for Ebola and really all infectious diseases. Contact Precautions must also include Droplet Precautions when the patient is coughing or is with artificial ventilation, with a coagulopathy that causes bleeding, or has diarrhea, etc. In such infectious disease cases, nurses and those directly involved in care need to be properly protected. It's 2014. Such standards should have been in place all along, and all hospitals should subscribe to and follow proper-SAFE protocol/s.

Please go to the website, read through, and sign the petition.

Also, here is the most current CDC Guidelines for donning and doffing PPE.

Warmly,

SamAdams8, RN, BSN

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