He considered himself lucky when he managed to secure a one-year contract in his region to replace a sick nurse.
Betty Ann Lynch, a nurse and a member of the negotiating committee for the union, the New York State Nurses Association, said shaping the drug benefit for sick nurses had been a priority.
Frontier Airlines, on which one of the sick nurses flew with a low fever, has adopted a more reasonable tact: directing passengers on relevant flights to the CDC, scrubbing the plane with extra assiduity and reminding people that Ebola is not airborne, and probably never will be (when a virus mutates it almost always gets weaker or less infectious).
Find the cure for cancer, tend to the sick, nurse the elderly, take care of the children: whatever.
Courteille, who was taking care of the nuns and of Mayinga, was careful not to accompany us to the sick nurse's bedside, and it seemed that all the personnel kept a guarded distance from their former colleague.
Gen. Nelson A. Miles, the ranking officer of the U.S. Army, also praised the gallantry of the black troops for their military abilities and for volunteering "to succor the sick, nurse the dying and bury the dead in the hospitals and Cuban camps". He was probably referring to the nearly 100 men of the black 24th Infantry who volunteered as nurses when a yellow fever epidemic broke out.
For those who fail to respond to treatment, or come when they are already very sick, nurses refer them to the nearest hospital with an inpatient Stabilisation Centre.
This is wise, given the huge costs of having a significant fraction of the workforce off sick or nursing relatives.
Supporters of long-term hospitals say that even without staff physicians, they provide high-quality care and play an important role by treating patients who are too sick for nursing homes but are not improving at traditional hospitals.
