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Medscape: Medscape Access

I just watch the new video by the CDC and Medscape on how to use PE for caring for an ebola pt. IT IS FULL OF FAULTS! The nurse contaminates herself in multiple places. Do not follow this video!!!!!! She is told to reach over her head to remove a hood. The hood should close with velcro in the front, instead it is solid and they have her pull it over her head to remove. Face, neck, hair contamination! She removes her booties and steps down into the same area she was just sanding. Contaminated shoes! Booties should be removed LAST as one foot at a time is placed in the CLEAN area. She reaches around to untie gown, contaminated inner gloves and anywhere her arms/shoulder brushed as she turned on her own body! We should have jumpsuits not gowns that allow for contamination from underneath. I was a nuclear worker before becoming a nurse. I donned PE equipment everyday for years and I am telling you all that this video is NOT TEACHING CORRECT PE EQUIPMENT USAGE!! If you are given this equipment and instructed to follow this video to care for a pt with Ebola or other highly infectious disease REFUSE!! You will be putting yourself, coworkers, other patients, and your family at risk!

This is just going to make things worse in the long run for the state. Many of us IP's refuse to work for the agencies. There are not enough nurses working with the agencies to fill the waiver patients hours. If my clients parents cannot find nurses for home care they will end up placeing their child at a children's MR/DD facility. It cost the state $6500 a month for two nurses in the home, it is over $12,000 a month for her to be placed in the facility. What in the heck are they thinking?

I am an IP in Ohio and this pay cut, I believe, is the first step to get rid of IP's. When the state gets rid of the IP's they can then cut all their staff that is used to support the program. This will save them the most money. The agencies "police" their own nurses and the state "polices" (audits, reviews, billing issues, etc...) the IP's. If there are no more IP's the state no longer needs all that staff amd therefore, saves money. As for me, I am quitting. I drive an hour to my pt's house each way, and with a 20% pay cut it will no longer be a good financial plan for me. I can make $18 an hour two blocks from my house. I have been with my pt for over 9 yrs and her family is very upset but they understand my situation. They will now have to use agency and the agencies never have any nurses or they send "less than desirable" nurses that the family doesn't trust. They are not the only family/pt that will have to change to agency for several other IP's I know are also quitting because of the drastic pay cut. The consumers needed to complain BEFORE the bill was signed and not enough did. Maybe after enough IP's quit the consumers will start complaining so much that the state will reverse it but, I doubt it. It is very sad for the consumers and the IP's. I'm sad because I am forced to leave my beautiful little pt that I love dearly and she is very attached to me. Her family is just sick over it. The whole situation is horrid. This was a very bad decision for Ohio and the results are not going to be good. You might be wondering, why I don't just go work for the agency and keep my pt? Well the agency will only pay me $17.50 an hour.

Hello. I want to start Rue for LPN to RN. I live in Ohio so do I take my test and get my license in Ohio or do I have to get it where ever Excelsior is? Rue states that they are the only program approved by Excelsior. Is that true?Is this a good program or should I try another one? I get so much stuff in the mail! I don't know which one to go to. How about Distance Learning Center? They don't give you the whole textbooks but I can meet face-to-face once a week with an instructor. Has anyone done that one? I am trying to figure out which one I should go through. Any advice?