Troops to Fight Ebola

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Good morning all,

I was just reading the news this morning and saw that President Obama has plans to send about 3,000 troops to Liberia to help fight Ebola. I was wondering what my fellow military nurses think of this plan? I have mixed feelings... I know this is something that needs to be contained, but I also feel that sending an already strained military force may not be the best approach... any other thoughts?

Yes, this is awful. How do you combat a disease when the ignorance and lack of understanding leads to killing the people trying to help? The CDC is holding a 3 day training class in AL and is emphasizing the need for mid-level providers, RNs and PAs. Oh, but wait, you have to pay your own way to Africa if you want to volunteer.

The scope of this disease is unlike anything seen before.

Want to Fight Ebola? CDC to Train Health Workers

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Yes, this is awful. How do you combat a disease when the ignorance and lack of understanding leads to killing the people trying to help? The CDC is holding a 3 day training class in AL and is emphasizing the need for mid-level providers, RNs and PAs. Oh, but wait, you have to pay your own way to Africa if you want to volunteer.

The scope of this disease is unlike anything seen before.

Want to Fight Ebola? CDC to Train Health Workers

Yeahhh......not gonna see me there.

I really don't need to go into debt to travel halfway around the world so that I can live in sub-human conditions among the dead and dying and have a reasonable expectation my throat will be slit before I can get out.

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Specializes in Hematology/Oncology, Critical Care.

Right... I understand on the one hand that this is a big crisis, and they need help. But at what point does the US demand someone else take the lead on an issue? Why send an already weary military to do the dirty work everywhere? And how does one combat the ignorance that is causing people to go after and kill healthcare workers?

I don't know what the answer is. It seems like throwing our military at everything as the go-to response, though, is not a good plan.

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Specializes in Critical care.

As already noted by a PP, our military has been sent on humanitarian missions for generations, so nothing new in that regard. Build a medical prosthetics lab in Oman? Check. Cholera epidemic in Rwanda? Check.

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Would'a been easier to fight this when it was still an ocean away...now we are going to pay a much higher price:

News from The Associated Press

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