Survey Results: To Quarantine or not to Quarantine
We surveyed our nursing community to see what you thought about the issues over the Kaci Hickox situation as well as its impact on nurses and healthcare workers. We also asked about your thoughts on quarantining all healthcare workers who have cared for Ebola patients. These issues have certainly generated lots of discussion within our allnurses community. We've read what some of you have said in the public threads......now you can see what more than 3,800 said in private.
To Quarantine or Not to Quarantine......That is the Question that we posed last Thursday. We just want to thank the 3800+ of you nurses who took the time to participate in the latest survey. Your voices have been heard and here is what you said about Kaci Hickox and other healthcare workers who have cared for Ebola patients.
Many posters felt that nurses who took care of Ebola patients should voluntarily quarantine themselves and not run the risk of infecting others....we should err on the side of caution. Some thought quarantine should be mandatory. Many comments were made that we don't know enough about Ebola, and that is causing a lot of discomfort. Some felt that quarantine was not necessary since she is asymptomatic, and some interesting comments pointed to hysteria and reactionism to the possible need for quarantine. Other comments included that the nurses should get paid for this time and several others weren't quite sure of the need for quarantine or not and wanted more information. Some felt "this nurse should be setting a good example for others."
There were 581 comments on this question
The second question garnered 441 comments.
Many comments were made to the effect that this nurse needed to more closely monitor her interactions with the media. Nurses usually have no public relations experience and for this nurse it was the cause of much negative publicity. "Kaci has turned this into a media frenzy." While many agree with her position, they feel she has handled this poorly.
Summary of comments
There were over 2300 comments:
Most responders said that until we know more we should quarantine with pay. Many felt that education and following CDC guidelines was the way to deal with healthcare workers exposed to Ebola. Another commonality was to provide more information to the public so that hysteria and panic was averted. Many posters felt that self-quarantine was the way to go and others felt that these healthcare workers should be monitored in a CDC facility.
You don't understand what "I'm done" means, do you? It means this discussion is going nowhere, therefore, responding won't do anything except meet blind eyes. Bye. :)
You don't understand what "I'm done" means, do you? It means this discussion is going nowhere, therefore, responding won't do anything except meet blind eyes. Bye. :)
You are just the WORST kind of doctor. With all your evidence and science and stuff.
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Evidence shmevidence.
Wait a minute, that doesn't make any sense. Oh who cares, after all, no one else insists on making sense!
All the silliness aside, what this poll suggests is that nursing education is in dire straights.
I have been utterly ashamed to be associated with nursing/nurses in the past 6 weeks, and I've never said that before in a career approaching 28 years. It is so disheartening to know that our colleges in medicine think we are all as uneducated & uninformed as those that keep screeching "better safe than sorry!" The whole thing is an embarrassment.
It is so disheartening to know that our colleges in medicine think we are all as uneducated & uninformed as those that keep screeching "better safe than sorry!" The whole thing is an embarrassment.
Some of our colleagues in medicine support a quarantine.
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Let's please stick to discussing the subject at hand (quarantine) without name-calling, insults or personal attacks. Thank you all for your anticipated compliance.
The country awards clip is just appalling, and shows what happens when you let 'celebrities' and media decide what your positions on anything should be. Seriously, these people came over to me as the reddest of red-necks. (I am watching the box set of Justified at the moment).
I stated way back in comment #32 on this thread -
So from that can we PLEASE use some evidence based practice and not gut or fear reactions. If you are getting your health care advice from FOX or any other media you really need to rethink your education.
"FORT KENT, Maine — Ted Wilbur, the boyfriend of nurse Kaci Hickox, has formally withdrawn from the nursing program at the University of Maine at Fort Kent and the two plan to move away from Fort Kent within the week.
Wilbur made his decision after he and the campus apparently were unable to reach a mutually satisfactory plan for his return to classes this week.
“I know [Wilbur] has spoken publicly with concerns he had about returning,” Dan Demeritt, University of Maine System spokesman, said Saturday morning. “Our position is we worked with Ted and the broader campus community to address all the concerns and uncertainties we faced over the last couple of weeks.”"
"When the big one comes, irrational fear will be a huge impediment to success against a really serious adversary, like SARS or influenza. As Franklin Roosevelt said, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”"
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You are just the WORST kind of doctor. With all your evidence and science and stuff.
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