Quote From: f_brosiusQUOTE
feel some of the reasons for the spread of this dangerous disease is the un cleanliness and the traveling nurses. It was rare that I saw the same nurse twice.
Best of luck to all.
As I stated back a bit on this forum and that is the nurses are not tested (at least in the hospital I was in) for MRSA because if they have it they could no longer go near patients. I did not make this up; I was told this from one of the nurses. Before you say no way; think about what this would do to the nursing staff if they did.
This is a tough subject IF it is true that 70% of the population are carrier's of MRSA It is doing nothing when a Doctor or Hospital finds you have it that is wrong if you ask me; but no one asked me.
That # is WAY too high for the percentage of people in the community affected and or colonized with it.
Only about 25-30% of the population have Staph aureus on their skin or in their nose. Far fewer, about 1% are colonized with MRSA.
"MRSA is carried, or "colonized," by about 1% of the population, although most of them aren't infected."
"Roughly 5% of people treated in U.S. hospitals for MRSA died of the infection in 2005, according to a new report from the government's Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality."
"95% of these non-health-care-related infections are confined to the skin and soft tissue, he says."
http://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/understanding-mrsa-methicillin-resistant-staphylococcus-aureus
Also:
"Nurses who work in general medical units who go home in their scrubs are not a risk to the public," she says. Even so, Dash insists nurses wear clean uniforms laundered in bleach; and she prefers nurses go straight home after work, change out of their uniforms, and shower...
A positive result means a nurse harbored MRSA at the time of the culture, but the bacteria could be transient. Other nurses might remain colonized yet pose scant risk of infecting others, she says."
http://include.nurse.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2003304010336
