A nurse who contracted Ebola at the Dallas hospital where she worked plans to sue the hospital's parent company, Texas Health Resources, hoping to be a "voice for other nurses," her lawyer said today. 
 
 In the suit, which Nina Pham plans to file Monday, the 26-year-old nurse alleges that Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital didn't train the staff to treat Ebola and didn't give them proper protective gear, which left parts of their skin exposed, her lawyer Charla Aldous said. 
 
 "One of the most concerning things about the way [the hospital] handled this entire process is you've got a young lady who has this disease which she should not have. And if they properly trained her and given her the proper personal protective equipment to wear, she would not have gotten the disease," Aldous said. 
 
 Aldous said Pham hopes the suit will "help make sure that hospitals and big corporations properly train their nurses and healthcare providers." 
 
 "This is not something that Nina chose," Aldous said, but "She's hoping that through this lawsuit she can make it a change for the better for all nurses." 
 
 Pham is still coping with Ebola's after-effects, including nightmares and body aches, her lawyer said. 
 
 "She has not gone back to work yet and she is working on recovering," Aldous said. "I don't know if she'll ever be a nurse again." 
 
 Texas Health Resources spokesperson Wendell Watson said in a statement: "Nina Pham bravely served Texas Health Dallas during a most difficult time. We continue to support and wish the best for her, and we remain optimistic that constructive dialogue can resolve this matter." 
 
 Last fall, Pham cared for Liberian native Thomas Eric Duncan, who flew to the U.S. and was diagnosed with Ebola at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. 
 
 Pham took care of Duncan when he was especially contagious, and on Oct. 8, Duncan died from the virus. 
 
 Pham tested positive for Ebola on Oct. 11, marking the first Ebola transmission on U.S. soil. 
 
 On Oct. 16, Pham was transferred to the National Institutes of Health's hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. She was discharged on Oct. 24. 
 
 At the news conference announcing Pham's discharge, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the NIH, said she tested negative for Ebola five times, and that it wasn't clear which treatment saved her because they were all experimental. 
 
 "I want to first tell you what a great pleasure and in many respects, a privilege ... to have the opportunity to treat and care for and get to know such an extremely courageous and lovely person," Fauci said, adding that she represents the health care workers who "put themselves on the line." 
 
 Pham's dog, Bentley, was also quarantined for several weeks, over fears that he, too, would develop Ebola. 
 
 ABC News' Sarah Herndon and Doug Vollmayer contributed to this report. 

 She went home and later had a fever of “99-point- something,” about 2 degrees above her normal temperature. Pham said she called the hospital and the Dallas County health department, and was told to monitor her temperature. But unless her temperature reached 100.4, they told her, she should not be concerned. 
 
 The day after Duncan died, Pham said she met with someone from the CDC and the hospital’s employee health manager to walk through her care of Duncan and how she protected herself. 
 
 She woke up early Oct. 10 with a temperature of 100.6. Pham said she called the Presbyterian emergency room and told them who she was and that she was coming to the hospital. She drove to the hospital, where she was put in isolation. Her boyfriend at the time was quarantined but remained Ebola-free. They stopped seeing each other soon after, and Pham is currently not dating anyone. 
 
 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.” 
 
 When a test confirmed that she did have Ebola, “I broke down crying” and was in disbelief. 
 
 “It was very scary,” she said. “My time at Presbyterian is a bit blurry just because I was in and out of having to take pain medications and just being very, very, very fatigued the whole time. One of the hardest things about having Ebola was the extreme amount of fatigue.” 
 
 Pham said she received three experimental drugs and “one glimmer of hope” when she found out that Brantly could give her plasma. Brantly, a doctor from Fort Worth, contracted Ebola in July while treating patients in Liberia. The plasma of Ebola survivors is helpful in the treatment of others fighting the disease. 
 
 Although Pham was always being watched and she talked with her family on the phone, she was lonely, she said. 
 
 Pham remains on the payroll at Texas Health Presbyterian but isn’t working. “I’m still trying to figure out what I want to do next. It’s been such a life-changing experience, a traumatizing experience, too,” Pham said. 
 
 “Just knowing the whole world’s watching but you’re so isolated and the people that are coming [in to care for me] are risking their lives,” Pham said. “Touching me is life-threatening. It’s very lonely.” 
 
 By the fifth day of isolation, Pham was sitting up in a chair. She thought she was doing better. But a doctor came in to talk about “end-of-life decisions” with her. 
 
 The day Pham was transferred to NIH, a notation was made in her medical file that “she does not have the mental capability to make end-of-life decisions,” Aldous said. But PR people from Texas Health were trying to talk to her for a media release “about how much she loves Presbyterian,” Aldous said. 
 
 Texas Health, with a PR firm’s help, developed a slogan — “Presby Proud” — aimed at restoring the community’s faith in the beleaguered hospital. 
 
 Before Pham’s flight to Maryland on Oct. 16, she said, a doctor wearing a video camera under his protective hood came into her room and said he was filming her for educational purposes. Pham said she did not give permission for the video, which was released to the media. 
 
 “Thanks for getting well. Thanks for being part of the volunteer team to take care of our first patient,” a man’s voice said in the video. “It means a lot. This has been a huge effort by all of you guys.”
– Nina Pham beat Ebola; now she's taking on the place where she caught it. Pham, who contracted the virus while caring for dying patient Thomas Eric Duncan at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, tells the Dallas Morning News that she is suing the parent company of the hospital that made her a "symbol of corporate neglect." Among her accusations: A lack of training. Pham says the only Ebola training that nurses caring for Duncan initially received was a printout of guidelines her supervisor had found online, and all she knew about the disease was what she had learned in nursing school years earlier. A lack of equipment. Pham says the hospital at first did not supply proper protective gear, leaving nurses with their skin exposed, and nurses were only given hazmat suits after days of asking for them. She says decisions about protective gear had to be made by the nurses themselves "on the fly." No respect for privacy. Pham says that after she was placed in an isolation unit, the hospital not only disregarded her request not to have her name released—it also didn't ask her permission before giving the media a video of her taken by a doctor. Her lawyer tells the Morning News Pham was treated as a "PR pawn" and was asked about a media release "about how much she loves Presbyterian" on the same day a note was added to her medical files saying "she does not have the mental capability to make end-of-life decisions." The 26-year-old was declared Ebola-free in October, but she tells the Morning News she still suffers lingering problems, including insomnia, body aches, and hair loss. She has been warned that the aftereffects of experimental drugs used to treat her could include organ failure and vision loss, and she isn't sure if she'll be able to have children—or work as a nurse again. She is seeking damages, but her lawyer tells ABC News that she also aims to be a "voice for other nurses" and wants the lawsuit to "help make sure that hospitals and big corporations properly train their nurses and health-care providers."