Quarantined Nurse Kaci Hickox Misled Public - Works for CDC – Her Attorney was White House Visitor & Tied to Al Sharpton

Kaci Hickox has gotten a lot of mileage out of her emotion-packed description of her ordeal with screening and monitoring of individuals entering or returning to this country from Ebola stricken West Africa, her criticism of forced quarantine and the claim of civil rights violations. But, it might be more mileage than she originally intended. In her article for The Dallas News, Hickox claimed that she worked with Doctors Without Borders caring for Ebola stricken individuals in West Africa. In actuality, Hickox had ties with the Centers for Disease Control by virtue of being an official CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officer.

According to the Daily Caller, Hickox was listed as an "active" EIS officer as recently as July 18, 2014, per the CDC's own documents.

Hickox retained attorney Norman Siegel to file a lawsuit on her behalf alleging civil rights violations due to the mandatory quarantine issued by the state of New Jersey because of the possibility Hickox could be infected with Ebola. In an interesting coincidence, Siegel happened to be an official guest at the White House State Dinner on February 11, 2014, accompanying none other than Ms. Rachel Robinson, the widow of Jackie Robinson. Siegel, in another coincidence, partnered with none other than race-baiter supreme Al Sharpton in opposition to the New York state proposal to implement a DNA database of felons.

Naturally, the White House, aka Barack Hussein (Ebola) Obama, criticized the state of New Jersey in quarantining Hickox while the CDC was developing guidelines for the states to follow in dealing with health care workers returning from Ebola stricken West African nations. It has been no secret that Ebola-Obama opposes any type of quarantine and the parrots at the CDC, Dr. Tom Frieden and Steven Fauci, mimic his rhetoric. However, the Department of Defense commander of US Army Africa, Maj. Gen. Darryl Williams, has implemented mandatory quarantine for himself and 10 other soldiers upon returning to an Italian Army base after building treatment facilities in Ebola ravaged West Africa.

It appears that Maj. Gen. Williams understands much more about public health safety, personal responsibility and duty than anyone at the CDC or Ms. Hickox – individuals who are supposed to be trained health care professionals.

Ms. Hickox would do well to remember that she practices her profession under her resident state nurse practice act. Since it has been disclosed she resides in Maine, Ms. Hickox has to follow the laws of the state of Maine when functioning as a nurse.

According to the State of Maine Nurse Practice Act, disciplinary action, up to suspension and revocation of the license of the licensee, can be taken when the license holder engages in "(E) Incompetence in the practice for which the licensee is licensed. A licensee is considered incompetent in the practice if the licensee has: (1) engaged in conduct that evidences a lack of ability or fitness to discharge the duty owed by the licensee to a client or patient or general public; …." Since Ms. Hickox was unwilling to discharge her duty to follow the State of New Jersey public health mandate of a quarantine in their state under the guidelines the state was allowed to implement by virtue of abdication of the federal government, she exhibited a level of incompetence to fulfill her duty to the general public.

The State of Maine Nurse Practice Act states that disciplinary action may be taken against a licensee who engages in "unprofessional conduct." According to the law, "a licensee is considered to have engaged in unprofessional conduct if the licensee violates a standard of professional behavior that has been established in the practice for which the license is issued." In the case of Ms. Hickox, the standard of professional behavior would be to follow the state's mandate of quarantine according to their guidelines and at their designated facility in order to "do no harm" to the general public. The standard of professional behavior is to exercise personal responsibility to insist that public health safety come before oneself and follow the World Health Organization (WHO) 42 day incubation period for Ebola with a quarantine. Instead, Ms. Hickox complained about the treatment of health care workers in a news outlet almost demanding preferential treatment for health care workers.

The Maine Nurse Practice Act also allows disciplinary action for "engaging in false, misleading or deceptive advertising." Ms. Hickox failed to disclose her association with the CDC, instead promoting first and foremost her work with Doctors Without Borders. By engaging in this "deception," one could assume Ms. Hickox was a willing participant in a plan to undermine the guidelines for screening, monitoring and quarantining of individuals, mostly health care workers, returning from caring for Ebola stricken individuals in West Africa. Also, Ms. Hickox has basically hired an attorney to file a lawsuit for violation of civil rights concerning a quarantine issued to ensure public health safety, since three health care professionals have refused to exercise personal responsibility based on current medical knowledge regarding Ebola and endangered the general public with infection. Ms. Hickox intentionally hid her association and employment with the CDC in order to "tow the company line" against sound medical intervention. Basically, she mislead the public by failing to fully disclose her close association and employment with the CDC, which would account for her ranting and "special treatment."

This "nurse" needs to have multiple complaints filed against her with the State of Maine Board of Nursing for violation of the State Nurse Practice Act should it be found she is licensed to practice in that state.

Since Ms. Hickox indicated she graduated from the University of Texas Arlington, a search of the State of Texas Board of Nursing produced a result for a Kaci Lynne Hickox, who resides in Grapevine, Texas, according to the Nursing Board record. This license holder has a compact license meaning the license holder may practice in multiple states using the license issued by the State of Texas. However, the license holder is responsible for following the Nurse Practice Act in all states in which the license is valid and the state of residence. The Texas Board of Nursing has similar rules allowing for disciplinary action as Maine for similar offenses. The "ranting" Hickox reportedly returned home to Maine for her quarantine after the White House became involved.

Anyone may file a complaint against a nurse for violation of the Nurse Practice Act. Normally, the complaints are filed by colleagues, other nurses or physicians. However, with the actions of Ms. Hickox out in the open, the general public has every reason to question this nurses' ability to follow any nurse practice act which indicates that the professional registered nurse has a duty to public health safety.

Maybe Ms. Hickox should have thought all of this through before opening her mouth and engaging in making herself a media spectacle. It's possible that Ms. Hickox was willing to sacrifice her career in exchange for fame, millions of dollars or both in order to undermine the public health safety at the behest of the CDC. Should that be the case, Ms. Hickox should be ashamed to call herself a professional nurse.

If anyone would like to lodge a complaint against Ms. Hickox for unprofessional conduct and violations of standard professional conduct, the address for both Texas and Maine Nursing Boards are listed below.

State of Texas Board of Nursing
William P. Hobby Building
233 Guadalupe, Suite 3-460
Austin, TX 78701-3944
Toll-free complaint line: 1-800-821-3205
Email: [email protected]

State of Maine Board of Nursing
161 Capital Street
158 State House Station
Augusta, Maine 04333-0158
Phone: 207-287-1133
Probation and Compliance: 207-287-1144
Email: [email protected]

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KatRob

Deport her to africa, along with Sharpton for being involved in yet another sham.
DJohn1

The sad thing is she could just possibly actually have Ebola and no one really knows for sure who is infected and who is not.
Hopefully that is not the case.
How do you justify passing it along to all your loved ones IF you do have it?
It is not contageous. She cannot possibly have it . . . right?
There are a whole bunch of people out there world wide that think the same way. Because technically she does not have it, or does she?
Again hopefully even if she does have it, she has not reached a stage where she could pass it on to anyone.
The tricky part of this is that at one stage if she is throwing blood platelets into the air for any reason, it suddenly becomes an entirely different disease we are looking at that is highly contageous. Blood platelets that are microscopic and invisible to the eye. But that cannot possibly be.
I would not bet the farm on it.
The father of all lies would be justifiably proud of this person.
The President of this country is convinced that it is not contageous at any stage of the disease. I hope he doesn't bet his family's welfare on that belief.
Only time will tell what the real truth is.
Meantime every lying politician of a Democrat persuasion that is up for election is likely not to be there in the new year. That is the cost. Our cost is to put up with this Idiot for another couple of years.
The more any one of us is so sure of their facts that they would bet money on it, the more likely it is that they are mistaken. I include myself in that statement. ASSUME! We all know what ASSUME stands for and how likely that will make us wrong.
But if I were President, I would be playing this issue as safe as I could possibly do. That means government stepping up to the plate and issuing quarantine orders. That means covering anyone financially that is quarantined. It means we protect our own first. It means stopping all immigration into this country temporarily until everything calms down and everything is under strict control.
It means lending a helping hand to the hospitals so they do not go broke over this Ebola Plague. We have to treat this disease as a war. In order to win that war we have to fight it on all fronts. That includes treating the victims of this disease here as casualties both health wise and financially.
But that would take something I and a lot of others are not seeing out of the Democratic Party at this time. That would take real leadership. That would take stepping up and being honest with people for a change. And that is why both houses of Congress will be Republican after the next election a day or two from now. You will have an incredible lame duck Congress between here and January. Then the helm shifts to the Republicans.
That really doesn't give me much faith in where we are headed.
lambda5555m

If she worked for CDC, then she had no option other than comply with what she was told to do. Government employees can't refuse to do something that is well within the Government's purview. She works for CDC, then she does the right thing or gets terminated. She can't work for the government and refuse to abide by the direction of the State she lives in. If she is not fired, why not? This is crap and if she puts anyone at risk, she should be sued into poverty. Selfish, just selfish.
Wrighton63

Another smidgen of truth develops.
lawboy87

I know I'm going to catch hell from a lot of you here, who will respond by calling my a brainwashed Obama sycophant, or stupid, or a plant - but still....

The CDC is part of the US Public Health Administration, as such it is very common for members of the Commissioned Corps of U.S. Public Health Service to serve or train in the CDC along with such other agencies as Agency for Healthcare Research, Secretary of Health's Office, National Institutes of Health, etc. F

The Commissioned Corps of the US Public Health Service ("Corps") was established in 1889 and can trace its history back 100 yrs prior to when Pres Adams established the "Marine" hospitals for Merchant Seamen. It is integrated within the US Navy to some degree and its members wear uniforms, hold rank and pay status commensurate with US Naval Officers. Technically, the US Surgeon General is the head of the Corps and in actuality holds the title of either Admiral or Rear Admiral, thus the uniform.

The CDC offers a two year program, consisting of a public "duty" component and an educational component (advanced coursework in epidemiology and other public health topics) for doctors and nurses. This program is known as the "Epidemic Intelligence Service" or ESI and is specifically designed to train medical personnel to track disease outbreaks and vectors so they can identify the source and cause of contagious disease outbreaks. Something the Commissioned Corps has been doing for well over 100 yrs. The ESI program draws thousands of applicants every year and has been operational since 1951, when Pres Truman required the agency to prepare to identify potential radioactive and biological agents which may be used against the US Populace in the early days of the Cold War (Korean War.) In the mid 50's the program was expanded to help track and identify an outbreak of Polio in the US and has been used hundreds of times since then to track outbreaks of diseases in the US and overseas.

They are not trained as "Intelligence Officers" as in military intelligence, they merely use the terminology, just as the Commissioned Corps use the ranks and uniforms borrowed heavily from the US Navy.

Do you honestly believe that if the members and graduates of the CDC' EIS Program were serving as CIA or Military Intelligence officers, there would be a very public record of them, including name and photograph on the CDC's website? (And that such public records of all who were members of the EIS program in the past would be available?) You think the CIA, NSA and the multitude of Military Intelligence Agencies posts pics of their latest grads on their websites? Yet, there's the CDC with pics of all of their recent ESI grads right on their website.

It's not a big conspiracy people, it's part of a government agency and division of the CDC that has been in existence since 1951 and not a single part of the program or its participants are being kept "secret." It's all part of the public record, openly published by the Govt.
http://biblefreeway.blogspot.com/ christie schuler smith

i emailed a complaint, as suggested, to the address provided for maine. i received an email back this morning. kaci kickox IS NOT LICENSED in the state of maine, nor has she ever applied for a license there.