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In reply to the discussion: 16 Members of Doctors Without Borders Infected with Ebola, Nine Dead [View all]jtuck004
(15,882 posts)really being discussed. Are they pushing these nurses to work less hours, replacing their co-workers with cheaper help and expecting the same results, etc.? Most hospitals are reportedly doing that, along with cheaper and less expensive (and less educated workers) facilitates springing up on many street corners. At least in white neighborhoods where, at least, they used to be middle-class.
The first things I read, including from the CDC, blamed the nurse for taking off a glove wrong or something. Seems like it would be better to start from a wider perspective in the discussion, especially after seeing nurses standing in labor lines across the country, and seeing hospital floors staffed by more and more people with barely a CPR card.
The reason for that is, if it was just a worker bee screwing up, they can keep making their profits while you and your family die. If the problem is wider, and perhaps involves the facility or people you will be seeing...
...and make no mistake, there is a very high chance that you will be visiting with a health care professional about this in the next year or so...
...then it would be of significant value to discuss the real cause as to why a nurse, anywhere, might be expected to get the job done, without profit-sucking time spent washing hands and other tasks that cannot be billed to a patient. Because they are.
Might be worth your life, or your kid or neighbor.