Nina Pham, who was one of two nurses who contracted Ebola from Thomas Eric Duncan, has announced that she will be suing her employer, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital, for failing to provide proper gear and training to prevent the spread of Ebola.

She says the hospital and its parent company, Texas Health Resources, failed her and her colleagues who cared for Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person in the United States diagnosed with Ebola.

“I wanted to believe that they would have my back and take care of me, but they just haven’t risen to the occasion,” Pham told The Dallas Morning News last week in an exclusive interview.

Pham says she will file a lawsuit Monday in Dallas County against Texas Health Resources alleging that while she became the American face of the fight against the disease, the hospital’s lack of training and proper equipment and violations of her privacy made her “a symbol of corporate neglect — a casualty of a hospital system’s failure to prepare for a known and impending medical crisis.”

She says that Texas Health Resources was negligent because it failed to develop policies and train its staff for treating Ebola patients. She says Texas Health Resources did not have proper protective gear for those who treated Duncan.

Pham wants unspecified damages for physical pain and mental anguish, medical expenses and loss of future earnings. But she said that she wants to “make hospitals and big corporations realize that nurses and health care workers, especially frontline people, are important. And we don’t want nurses to start turning into patients.”

Pham goes into great detail in her interview with the Dallas Morning News about how unprepared the staff was for the diagnosis of Ebola, and that there were no concrete plans on how to deal with anything. She also points out that her own personal privacy was violated in what she calls an attempt by the hospital to combat a “PR nightmare” of dealing with one dead patient, and two sick nurses.

When she was admitted to Presbyterian, Pham said, she made it clear that she did not want any information released about her medical condition.

“I wanted to protect my privacy, and I asked several times … to put be as ‘no info’ or at least change my name to Jane Doe,” Pham said. “I don’t think that ever happened.”

While Pham has gotten better, there may be lingering effects from the disease.

Pham said she has a lot of anxiety about the possible long-term effects of Ebola and the experimental drugs.

She’s been told to look out for possible sensory changes, vision loss and organ failure.

Pham previously had complications with high levels of enzymes in her liver, and she’s concerned the problem has reappeared. She said that she can’t even have a glass of wine with dinner now without getting sick.

Some of her hair has started to fall out. A doctor at NIH told her that was caused by Ebola, she said.

While I understand her concerns about the long-term effects, and the effect that this entire event had on her life, I do have problems with her proposed lawsuit. One is in regards to her issues about privacy. After her illness, she has made more than one public appearance – including going to the White House.

Obama meets with Ebola-free nurse Nina Pham http://t.co/dXaFSbccPN via @djusatoday (Photo: Getty Images) pic.twitter.com/8wZsKEElqo

— USA TODAY Washington (@USATWashington) October 24, 2014

And the photo op when her beloved dog, Bentley, was returned to her.

Dallas nurse Nina Pham was reunited with her dog #Bentley just moments ago. pic.twitter.com/7O7OQepvbE

— CBSDFW (@CBSDFW) November 1, 2014

And she didn’t shy away from being honored – along with Amber Vinson and Dr. Kent Brantly, two other Ebola survivors – as a 2014 “Texan of the Year” by the Dallas Morning News last December.

If you were trying to avoid the public eye, why are you accepting a public award? I can sort of understand the meeting with the president, and the photo op for the reunion with her dog, but if you don’t want more publicity or to be only be known for Ebola, then this is not the way to do it.

And in that article honoring Pham and Vinson, it says:

Neither recalls any sort of breach in procedures that might have left them exposed. Buddy nurses always monitored each other donning and doffing the protective equipment.

That does not mesh up with her claims now that she didn’t have proper gear and training. Last December, that didn’t seem to be part of the story. Now, with a lawsuit being prepared, it is the whole crux of her argument.

While I certainly think the CDC was caught flat-footed and was stupidly unprepared for this kind of event, I am not certain that entire blame can be placed on them. A lot of blame, sure. There was plenty of blame to go around at the government level, including the do-nothing say-nothing never-show-up so-called Ebola czar Ron Klain. Am I blaming Pham for contracting the disease? No. But I’m not sure what she wants this lawsuit to do. It won’t give her less publicity, less symptoms, better health, or stop associating her with Ebola. And if she wants better training in the future for other nurses and healthcare providers, how is getting “unspecified damages” from Texas Health Resources going to fix that? I smell a lawyer’s sticky fingers all over this one.

Does Nina Pham have a legitimate case? Or is this just someone else’s chance to use her for publicity and a payout?