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1. MRSA please help

   nursex20 replied to nursex20's topic in Disease

   ........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 MRS...

2. MRSA please help

   nursex20 replied to nursex20's topic in Disease

   We are now a month almost past the first nurse who called in to the agency with positive mrsa results and since then not one nurse that she has worked with has been notified that they may need testing. Not one patient chart in the home has been updat...

3. MRSA please help

   nursex20 replied to nursex20's topic in Disease

   Sharon you are awesome ! Thank you so much. I am going to print this and come back to puter after I get my 8 yr old to bed, was on duty last night and just saw this now. Will be back and update, thanks again.

4. MRSA please help

   nursex20 replied to nursex20's topic in Disease

   There seems to be a lot of emphasis being used on the word colonization and also carrier, at least with my administrative staff. Are they just covering there own butts? probably. I have decided with my personal physician as did the first nurse who te...

5. MRSA please help

   nursex20 replied to nursex20's topic in Disease

   ......i agree and have always liked that aspect of home health and the fact that we can avoid a lot of spreading infection. we had a great team at that house and kept all the equipment immaculate in the baby's room as well as doing all of her laundry...

6. MRSA Please Help

   nursex20 replied to nursex20's topic in Home Health

   I really appreciate your help and prayers. I am not finding much at all in the way of Regs. for mrsa in the home health setting so I am assuming that one would be smart to follow the CDC guidelines as closely as possible and it is not looking good fo...

7. MRSA...Please Help

   nursex20 replied to nursex20's topic in General Nursing

   ........no special precautions other than universal precautions were needed except during an acute illness. That is what is scaring me after so long out there. I can't count how many fevers I have nursed that baby through over a year and we had no id...

8. MRSA Please Help

   nursex20 posted a topic in Home Health

   I need everything you know about MRSA. I was called this week by a coworker and friend who has been sick lately and just learned she is MRSA positive ( a carrier). She and I worked together on a case that I was on for over a year. She called as a fr...

9. MRSA please help

   nursex20 posted a topic in Disease

   I need everything you know about MRSA. I was called this week by a coworker and friend who has been sick lately and just learned she is MRSA positive ( a carrier). She and I worked together on a case that I was on for over a year. She called as a fr...

10. MRSA...Please Help

    nursex20 posted a topic in General Nursing

    I need everything you know about MRSA. I was called this week by a coworker and friend who has been sick lately and just learned she is MRSA positive ( a carrier). She and I worked together on a case that I was on for over a year. She called as a fr...

11. Don't forget the basics.

    nursex20 posted a topic in General Nursing

    Update (kind of long) on my new home health patient 'the baby". I told you all she was 2 years old and CHARGE Syndrome, vent. support and many congenital heart defects (her heart is in backwards for starters). Anyway, I did my 15 hour Sunday night sh...

12. Call Offs

    nursex20 replied to nurseangel78's topic in General Nursing

    She states that if you call off sick for any reason whatsoever, even if you have a doctor's excuse, that you have to call another employee to get coverage for the shift you are suppose to work and if no one covers your shift or you don't come in to w...

13. Ativan vs. Trazadone for insomnia?

    nursex20 replied to Roozeyk's topic in General Nursing

    I can't believe that a Doctor would use Ativan in any patient for insomnia but especially an elderly one as they often have reverse reactions to meds. It is very addicting and an anti-anxiety medication. Unless the insomnia is caused by anxiety? Hmmm...

14. Filing HIPPA Complaint

    nursex20 replied to nursex20's topic in HIPAA

    The insurance company is now out of business and that tells you how long I have been messing with this. How would I go about number 3? I have Googled the CEO's name but what in the world would I say in the letter? I am assuming this would be sent reg...

15. Filing HIPPA Complaint

    nursex20 posted a topic in HIPAA

    :angryfire Need some advice and have never done this before. It is not job related but personal and I am sick of this hospital. They are local and going down the tubes financially with whole units shut down for lack of nurses but that is not the stor...