MRSA please help

........Despite following strict precautions with handwashing and Isolation of patients with MRSA I seem to have contracted it anyway...........

The problem with that is poor teaching and support even among professionals. People have no idea that MRSA is the fastest growing pathogen on our planet. They continue to demand antibiotic treatment at the first sign of a cold. They are not being taught that once they are infected with mRSA they may be contagious whenever they are sick and do not tell hospital staff on admission if they have had MRSA befoe. Maybe hospitals do know and are still not putting these people in isolation when they admit with a hx. of MRSA.

I am not sure how effective a workmans comp claim would be in your case. It would seem that they could reply that there was no baseline to determine that you did not have colonized mRSA before you were employed there but you might look into it.

I am more concerned with MRSA as a nurse than with HIV every day. I do continuos care now for Hospice patients and I assume that they are all infected due to reent hospitilazation or nursing home care. It is much easier to deal with having only one patient at a time and a big tub of clorox or lysol wipes in my on duty bag. that bag lives in my car trunk and never comes into my house, and in hospice we are not about a lot of agressive treatment so there is not as much patient contact. Everything I touch and use in the patient area including the table I write on and the siderails of the bed get lysoled or cloroxed for my shift.
Let me know how you are doing.
The nurse I was working with when this thread started did finally get her nares free of MRSA but she went through the whole iV Vanco series and then some. All of her personal items at home had to be thrown away and replaced etc, etc.
It is a mess.
Good luck.