Coming February 6, 2024 . . .
MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop
Coming February 6, 2024 . . . MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Pre-order at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
A survey by National Nurses United of some 400 nurses in more than 200 hospitals in 25 states found that more than half (60 percent) said their hospital is not prepared to handle patients with Ebola, and more than 80 percent said their hospital has not communicated to them any policy regarding potential admission of patients infected by Ebola.
Another 30 percent said their hospital has insufficient supplies of eye protection and fluid-resistant gowns.
"If there are protocols in place, the nurses are not hearing them and the nurses are the ones who are exposed," said RoseAnn DeMoro, executive director of National Nurses United, which serves as both a union and a professional association for U.S. nurses.
Comments
Back when I was getting my BS in Business Admin I was introduced to the Business Model.
No point in regurgitating it in it's entirety, but here's a few pointers :
1) not prepared to handle patients with ....
That's a cost issue. It costs money to have the necessary items on hand and ready to use. And there's the issue of where will it be stored, life expectancy of the individual items, someone to routinely check to make sure expired items are properly discarded and replaced and so forth. That's a lot of money tied up that can't be used for other things. And every medical abnormality requires different medical items to combat so there would be multiple storage areas depending on the number of diseases. Just imagine how many deadly viruses there are, like ebola, and then imagine what a hospital would need to have on hand for each, where to store it, inventory management and so forth. And also take into account the area population and what statistics say about the number of people per thousand that could be infected depending on the disease.
2) hospital has not communicated to them any policy regarding potential admission of patients infected by ...
Hospitals as we know them are for-profit institutions, There will be a policy only when the threat of the disease is already in the area ... not until then. In other words, when they have to deal with a medical/health threat, a policy will be issued for medical staff to follow.
3) hospital has insufficient supplies of eye protection and fluid-resistant gowns.
Local hospitals are not part of the CDC, so unless they're engaged in medical activities/practices that require special devices, their shelves will be bare because the necessity for them does not exist.
Medical equipment and drugs to combat epidemics and pandemics that are not part of the local medical health climate of an area are never sitting in inventory just in case they might be needed some day. If one does hit your area, hope you're not one of the first ones to get sick or hope you have a strong constitution.
It's all about profit ... taking your money and betting on the chance you will live a long and prosperous life and never have any need of serious medical attention.
by Beetlejuice on Sat, 10/11/2014 - 12:54pm
Just to add a little less cynicism (though I don't dispute that your cynicism is accurate), there are many non-profit hospitals, but they also have to make similar budgetary decisions. I would, however, trust them to make better decisions than hospitals that have to answer to stockholders.
by Verified Atheist on Sat, 10/11/2014 - 4:28pm