Nina Pham being transferred to MD

[Ginger's Mom, MSN, RN]

I just heard on the news MS Pham is being transferred to the NIH, I hope her health is not getting worse! I hope this is because Texas is not prepared to handle her care, Prayers and thoughts her way!

[wanderlust99]

I thought she was being treated at Emory in atl? I hope she's ok ugh.

[chadrn65]

I thought she was being treated at Emory in atl? I hope she's ok ugh.

The other nurse, Amber Vinson is being treated at Atlanta.

[chadrn65]

The news said that Nina Pham would be treated at one of the 4 facilities that are equipped to handle Ebola.

Ebola-Stricken Dallas Nurse Nina Pham Expected to Be Moved to Maryland: Source - NBC News

Nina Pham, one of the two nurses who contracted Ebola in Dallas, is expected to be moved to a National Institutes of Health isolation unit in Bethesda, Maryland, a federal official with direct knowledge of the plans told NBC News on Thursday.

The transfer could happen later Thursday, but the official cautioned that plans were evolving. Pham, 26, was diagnosed with the virus on Sunday after treating Thomas Eric Duncan, who contracted Ebola in Liberia, flew to Dallas and later died.

The other nurse who contracted Ebola in Dallas, Amber Vinson, was flown on Wednesday to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. The Emory and NIH units are two of the four facilities in the United States that are specially equipped to handle Ebola.

[Ginger's Mom, MSN, RN]

I thought she was getting better and happy with her care thus is so confusing.

[chadrn65]

I thought she was getting better and happy with her care thus is so confusing.

Maybe she is getting better and happy with her care. But, personally.......I would want to be at one of the 4 facilities who are equipped to handle Ebola. I would want the best team of specialists, staff etc.. and to be in a facility that is set up to handle Ebola.

[blondy2061h, MSN, RN]

It is going to be salt on her wounds watching all of the staff there in their hazmat suits and thinking that if she had that resource she wouldn't be in her current predicament.

[chadrn65]

More info. NIH to admit Texas nurse diagnosed with Ebola virus

Later today, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center expects to admit the first nurse who contracted the Ebola virus at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital while providing patient care to the index patient who died of Ebola. The nurse is being admitted to the Special Clinical Studies Unit of the NIH Clinical Center at the request of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. She will receive state-of-the-art care in this high-level containment facility, which is one of a small number of such facilities in the United States.

The NIH Clinical Center’s Special Clinical Studies Unit is specifically designed to provide high-level isolation capabilities and is staffed by infectious diseases and critical care specialists. The unit staff is trained in strict infection control practices optimized to prevent spread of potentially transmissible agents such as Ebola. No additional details about the patient are being shared at this time.

NIH is taking every precaution to ensure the safety of our patients, NIH staff, and the public.

[JustBeachyNurse, LPN]

I am under the impression that the transfer is for safer, more appropriate care not necessarily worsening condition. Also to protect coworkers as clearly the facility does not have the supplies, facilities & equipment to work around a BSL4 virus. (As per her brave coworker that spoke out about the working conditions as linked in another thread).

Not unlike transferring a MVC patient with what looked to be a minor injury and turns out to have a closed head injury with bleed from a community ED to the regional trauma center.

[Schwanny]

Later today, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center expects to admit the first nurse who contracted the Ebola virus at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital

Finally! Why not the day she was diagnosed like nurse #2? I, personally, would not want to be treated in the same facility that I was infected/exposed.

[herring_RN, ASN, BSN]

I just heard on the radio that the CDC recommended that Nina be treated at the NIH while the Dallas hospital prepares for the likelihood that one or more people will develop ebola.

[icuRNmaggie, BSN, RN]

The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, which is across from NIH has a military medical team that has been studying Ebola and quietly going into the Hot zones to combat it for over twenty years. She will be in good hands.