Bob, you start down the food chain:
1. Hospital administrator2. Chief Nursing officer3. Infection control nurse - who is the go to person in these matters4. Lab administrator5. Plant facility manager - who may take care of supply6. head shift nurses7. Accounting - who buys the PPE8. Human Resources
Plus if you have a union - Get the union reps. If you have temp nurses - grab the temp agency rep.
All of them have to be on the same page. All of them have to be prepared.
What is coming out is that there is no plan to deal with someone walking in with Ebola. And when it did come, management couldn't handle it. Why did they not ask help from the CDC, county and state health authorities? No idea.
CDC was focused on tracing contact to make sure the disease was not spreading out beyond patient zero. Their unspoken assumption was the hospital was competent enough to handle it. Turns out they were not.
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Into terror!, Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell
1. Hospital administrator2. Chief Nursing officer3. Infection control nurse - who is the go to person in these matters4. Lab administrator5. Plant facility manager - who may take care of supply6. head shift nurses7. Accounting - who buys the PPE8. Human Resources
Plus if you have a union - Get the union reps. If you have temp nurses - grab the temp agency rep.
All of them have to be on the same page. All of them have to be prepared.
What is coming out is that there is no plan to deal with someone walking in with Ebola. And when it did come, management couldn't handle it. Why did they not ask help from the CDC, county and state health authorities? No idea.
CDC was focused on tracing contact to make sure the disease was not spreading out beyond patient zero. Their unspoken assumption was the hospital was competent enough to handle it. Turns out they were not.
__________________
Into terror!, Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell