U.s. Nurses Say They Are Unprepared To Handle Ebola Patients

[CherryPanda]

Nurses, the frontline care providers in U.S. hospitals, say they are untrained and unprepared to handle patients arriving in their hospital emergency departments infected with Ebola.
Many say they have gone to hospital managers, seeking training on how to best care for patients and protect themselves and their families from contracting the deadly disease, which has so far killed at least 3,338 people in the deadliest outbreak on record.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has repeatedly said that U.S. hospitals are prepared to handle such patients. Many infectious disease experts agree with that assessment.

U.S. nurses say they are unprepared to handle Ebola patients Reuters

Frankly speaking, I was, in a way, shocked reading about that.
Well, yeah, the government doesn’t see Ebola as a threat, though it’s already here. Right, one or two patients are not an epidemic yet.
But… shouldn’t be doctors concerned? And prepared? Just in case, for nobody wants the Dark Ages with their plagues repeat?
Are they so ignorant? Or are they just not eager to do anything without an order from above?