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Niehoff School of Nursing graduate Amelia Bumsted (DNP ’15) is working to keep health care workers safe when treating infectious diseases. PHOTO BY NATALIE BATTAGLIA MARCELLA NIEHOFF SCHOOL OF NURSING Preparing for the next Ebola Containing an outbreak begins with keeping health care workers safe / BY DIRK JOHNSON W 28 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO
hen the Ebola outbreak in West Africa led to the first confirmed cases of the disease in the United States in 2014, one of the questions it raised was how to best protect health care workers who were treating Ebola patients. The nursing profession has been debating the best
ways to guide health care workers in such perilous situations, and Amelia Bumsted (DNP ’15) remembers thinking: “There should be an app for that.” Bumsted, who earned a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree—a relatively new terminal clinical degree in the nursing profession—at
the Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing, has been working to develop such an app. The goal is to help clinical personnel follow CDC guide- lines for donning and doffing protective equipment properly when caring for a suspected or confirmed Ebola patient. This addresses precisely the calls being made by nursing advocates, such as the American Nurses Association, which are vocal in expressing concerns about whether health care workers are safe. “They were saying, ‘We need to have proper equipment and training,’ ” Bumsted says. Loyola’s Population-Based Infection Prevention & Environmental
Safety (PIPES) DNP program, one of the first in the nation to special- ize in infection prevention, focuses on populations at risk for disease. It produces graduates to become leaders and collaborators in
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