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Don’t feel prepared? Here’s what you do.

Nurses who do not feel prepared to treat patients with Ebola should be expressing their concerns to supervisors and infection preventionists, along with asking questions.

That’s the suggestion of Linda Greene, RN, MPS, CIC, an infection prevention manager at Highland Hospital in Rochester, N.Y., and a former board member of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology.

According to Greene, these questions from nurses might include:

— I’m feeling uncomfortable about my ability to care for someone with Ebola. Can you guide me?

— I haven’t seen an Ebola policy. What’s our organization’s practice?

— I’ve read the policy, but I don’t see instructions on what to do if a patient needs, say, a CT scan. How do I transport the patient?

— What if the family, who has been exposed to a patient with Ebola, comes in with the patient? Do we isolate them, too?

— Hospitals also have a responsibility to solicit information from front-line providers, Greene said, on how to improve their policies and procedures.

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