RedWeasel RN

RedWeasel has 20 years experience as a RN and specializes in RN CRRN.

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

   RedWeasel replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Disaster Preparation

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

   RedWeasel replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in Disaster Preparation

   They now want us to use paper gowns and masks With this:
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   Ethical Dilemma- Denying Care

   RedWeasel replied to alyssajenise.m's topic in Disaster Preparation

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

   RedWeasel replied to chadrn65's topic in Disaster Preparation

   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...
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   NEW EBOLA CSZAR Ron Klain

   RedWeasel replied to luv2's topic in Disaster Preparation

   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...
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   What CDC wears in a Biosafety Level 4 Lab (with Ebola).

   RedWeasel posted a topic in Disaster Preparation

   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...
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   Toward a Level 4 Protocol for Ebola

   RedWeasel replied to Nathan Frazier's topic in Disaster Preparation

   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...
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   "Houston we have a problem" This just got very real

   RedWeasel replied to Esme12's topic in Disaster Preparation

   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...
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   Toward a Level 4 Protocol for Ebola

   RedWeasel replied to Nathan Frazier's topic in Disaster Preparation

   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...
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    URGENT: Are CDC Ebola Guidelines 'Good Enough'?

    RedWeasel replied to MissyWrite's topic in Disaster Preparation

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

    RedWeasel replied to MissyWrite's topic in Disaster Preparation

    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...
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    Second ebola nurse "okay'd" to fly

    RedWeasel replied to babyNP.'s topic in Disaster Preparation

    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...
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    "Houston we have a problem" This just got very real

    RedWeasel replied to Esme12's topic in Disaster Preparation

    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...
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    URGENT: Are CDC Ebola Guidelines 'Good Enough'?

    RedWeasel replied to MissyWrite's topic in Disaster Preparation

    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...
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    GoFundMe account for Nina Pham RN

    RedWeasel replied to RNSue's topic in Disaster Preparation

    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...