I'm a nurse and I've possibly been exposed to Ebola and I think I maybe should be quarantined

[Yo_Mama]

64. Thank you for the rationality and the decency

People are blaming the nurse because it's too frightening to accept that our public health authorities are out to lunch on this one.

How anyone could possibly believe that there is more risk involved in being in a public place than in treating sick people is bizarre. Especially those here who claim to be HCW and are still castigating the nurse, when they should know that most of these people were still working.

The FIRST rule of health care is that if you think you have been exposed, you stop working and take it up with the local management. When they clear you, and when the top authority in the land says you have "no exposure", then you continue working.

It is entirely logical to believe that if you have no exposure, you are no danger to the public.

And yes, the CDC definition was that she had no exposure, because she was never treating the patient without PPE.
http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/case-definition.html

A low risk exposure includes any of the following

Household contact with an EVD patient
Other close contact with EVD patients in health care facilities or community settings. Close contact is defined as
being within approximately 3 feet (1 meter) of an EVD patient or within the patient’s room or care area for a prolonged period of time (e.g., health care personnel, household members) while not wearing recommended personal protective equipment (i.e., standard, droplet, and contact precautions; see Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations)
having direct brief contact (e.g., shaking hands) with an EVD patient while not wearing recommended personal protective equipment.
Brief interactions, such as walking by a person or moving through a hospital, do not constitute close contact