RedWeasel RN

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...

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

If they tried to make me use droplet precautions...then yes. Give me every kind of PPE within reason and no problem!

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Oops I meant NO they don't have it right. At All. CDC Director should step down.

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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?

I think our hospital rooms are pretty confined spaces as well. I think I could stand sweating in a suit vs a paper or plastic gown with neck exposed, gloves that rip easily and someone vomiting on you, as well as possibly having the virus aerolize in...

The rooms at Emory and Omaha use Ultraviolet light to kill germs I do believe, other places have UV robots, so no some places may have limited amount of residual ebola on surfaces. The fact is, she got ebola wearing a gown, gloves, mask and face shie...

They sure didn't blame the Drs that got it now did they?

Exactly. It is ridiculous. Funny how the media isn't in the hospital to see how little the RNs had to work with.

I posted this somewhere else but on the CDC website under the Ebola info there is a section for healthcare workers. If you dig in there you will find a PDF on Donning and Doffing PPE. There is one example (with pictures) on donning. There are Two Exa...

Okay. So if you go to the CDC site and dig through the healthcare section on Ebola, you will find a link on how to Don and Doff PPE. Now, there is one example on donning. Cool. There are TWO for Doffing. The First Doffing Example has you remove Glov...

I would hope if dialysis and intubation would (down the road) help this RN then I think it is worth the risk Mr CDC Frieden. She put her life on the line for him! Does he think any other RN will want to walk into an Ebola pts room after seeing how th...

Exactly!

We cant. Not when they use full body suits, duct taped up around seams an reapirators just to clean her home...and yet the rN deals with projectile bloody vomit and diarrhea. That poor girl. ANA needs to step up for her rights!

Yeah we are to wear a surg mask gown and gloves whereas these guys have someone checking them, sealing em with duct tape, and respirators. See video of the plane evacuation of the guy who sneezed then yelled/joked he had ebola this week. The big resp...