Scribe View: Ebola and Candy
Being in Texas, Ebola is short of a hot topic.We even had a false alarm about x2 days ago. It hit the local news and social media and it was a complete PR disaster. Long story short we basically had a frequent flyer (ER visit wise) drug seeker who shared a drink with a person who had recently traveled from Africa. I still speculate this pt just saw 24 hr straight of Fox News and maybe flipped to the National Geographic channel a few times during commercials to come up with this story. After it was all said in done, isolation, testing and closing of ER, the pt still had the nerve to still ask for something for pain.What they will do for candy (aka pain medication)...
Even before the false alarm, I started asking providers, mid-levels and nurses what would they do if they found out we had a potential Ebola positive pt. Surprisingly enough we don't have as many bleeding hearts (no pun intended) as you think in the ER. With the exception of the nurse with husband or kid. A majority said they would leave.
I previously said in my first post they knew what they were getting into. Do they really? Is the juice worth the squeeze. All of a sudden that RN money starting too look like dishwasher money when facing Ebola.
I don't dislike RN, as it might have seem like in the first post. I just dislike lazy people. It takes a lot be anything in the health field.