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National Nurse Survey Shows Hospitals Still Not Prepared for U.S. Ebola Patients
- Cass 12y agoGermany's not doing any better. My hospital's Ebola preparedness plan: Someone printed out a piece of paper with the number of the Ebola advice hotline, underlined it in orange, and stuck it up on the Emergency Room wall. I'm reasonably sure we don't have fluid impermeable gowns AT ALL, and while we do have face shields in an operating room somewhere, I wouldn't want to have to find one in a hurry. (That said, I'm reasonably sure that our actual inofficially-official Ebola plan is "Shut Door behind patient. Yell at people on Ebola hotline until they agree to come and take the patient away to a hospital more prepared to deal with this.")
- maxerickson 12y agoHow many beds is your hospital? Does it offer emergency care? (I would guess any U.S. hospital with an ER has impermeable gowns and such, so I'm just curious about the difference. I also quickly checked my intuition; Occupational Emergency Medicine seems to be a textbook that recommends them as standard equipment for emergency rooms.)
- ams6110 12y agoPretty sure Dallas was the wake-up call. I would expect most other US hospitals do not want to be the next news headline.