To All the A**holes who are Insulting the Flying Ebola Nurse: Shut Your F***ing Faces.

[KitSileya]

119. Oh, for crying out loud.

She knew her temperature wasn't normal *for her* because she was worried about it. The exact temperature doesn't matter, as it was *abnormal* for *her* to have a temperature of 99.5F.

And if a nurse who worked on an ebola patient doesn't know that ebola is contagious, I say strip them of their right to practice nursing immediately - they are a hazard to any patients.

I assume that even in the U.S., nursing schools teach their students how to avoid spreading infectious diseases. If not - the moment I had gotten a patient with ebola in the hospital I worked as cleaning staff, you can be damned sure I would have read up on it most assiduously and gone with the worst case scenario. As it was, we had to override nurses who felt it was too stigmatizing to tell us which rooms at the maternity ward contained mother with infectious diseases, and whose rooms we could only clean using containment procedures. Putting big yellow triangles on the doors was "outing" them to all the other mothers with newborn infants on the ward, and they certainly didn't have time to tell us which rooms they were in. It wasn't until I blew up and told them for f&/%'s sake put stickers of harmless butterflies and flowers beside the door so that only we would know what it meant, that they realized that they were putting all the newborns in the ward at risk for God knows what all different diseases.