Los Angeles,CA-
On November 7, 2014, SEIU Local 721, and UHW West co-hosted the largest Ebola Preparedness Training in California yet, along with other stakeholders: the Partnership for Quality Care (PQC), Kaiser Permanente, and the Los Angeles County Department of Health, among others.
The PQC is an organization where management and unions can meet on neutral ground and talk about the issues facing healthcare in America today. This conference was a wonderful opportunity for management to meet with nurse union leaders and discuss the latest CDC guidelines, as well as demonstrate proper “donning and doffing” of personal protective equipment (PPE), just in case we still weren’t clear on it.
Nurse Alliance of California’s very own Executive Director, Ingela Dahlgren, RN, sat on the panel of presenters which included luminaries in healthcare, infection control, management, and nurse leadership. The conference was attended by many frontline health care workers, including those from Local 721 and UHW West, as well as hospital management, and clinicians, as well as those who tuned in via the live telecast.
The conference may be viewed in its entirety below.
