I am working on MRSA best practices and am trying to get a sense (beyond what the "Consensus Statement of the Chicago-Area Neonatal MRSA Working Group" says) of what *your* NICU's are doing re: MRSA practices.
Could you please answer the following questions?
1. Do you routinely screen for MRSA? If so, who and when/how often? (for example, we screen ALL on admission, then once a week thereafter unless positive)
2. If someone is positive, do they get retested? Can they come off precautions?
3. Do you Universally Decolonize ALL patients (MRSA+ or not) with CHG bath?
4. Do you cohort nursing or patients or both (i.e. one nurse has only MRSA patients, or do they care for a MRSA+ and non-MRSA patient; do the MRSA+ patients get moved together?)? If only one patient on the unit is positive, is that patient made a 1:1?
5. How is your unit configured? (Single Patient Rooms, wards, etc.)
6. How do you handle visitors? Do they (parents included) have to gown and glove? What about multiples? Kangarooing?
Hello ID folk!
I am working on MRSA best practices for our neonatal ICU and am trying to get a sense of what your institutions in general are doing re: MRSA practices.
Could you please answer the following questions?
1. Do you routinely screen for MRSA? If so, who and when/how often? (for example, we screen ALL on admission, then once a week thereafter unless positive)
2. If someone is positive, do they get retested? Can they come off precautions?
3. Do you Universally Decolonize ALL patients (MRSA+ or not) with CHG bath?
4. Do you cohort nursing or patients or both (i.e. one nurse has only MRSA patients, or do they care for a MRSA+ and non-MRSA patient; do the MRSA+ patients get moved together?)? If only one patient on the unit is positive, is that patient made a 1:1?
5. How do you handle visitors? Do they have to gown and glove?
