About MRSA

Maggie Mae · Nov 23, 2004

Hello,I am a Japanese nurse. I am looking for an English site. I want to get information about the infection countermeasure. I am waiting for the mail. Thank you. Then, I want a nurse's friend.
Kenshi
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www.cdc.gov/ncidod/hip/Aresist/mrsafaq.htm
I hope I linked this ok for you.
Where I work mrsa is strict contact isolation, gowns, gloves, no exception. The idea is it is easily spread on surfaces, and on the hands of healthcare workers. VRE seems to be more prevalent, many patients who come from long term care facilities are colonized in their nares or possible in opem skin. I work on a tele floor so the vre or mrsa is not their problem, it's cardiac, but the chance of mrsa or vre being spread to others in the hospital is the concern. We also use a special soap to wash our hands after being with these patients. :)

Maggie Mae · Nov 23, 2004

I'll be your nurse friend.

Megan-Cho · Dec 9, 2004

Ohaiyo Gozaimasu Kenshi-Sama!

I am not a nurse. I am a mom of a 10 year old boy that has Community Acquired ORSA. This is one of 3 or more strains not found in healthcare settings. It's very aggressive. It attacks healthy skin. I have to nearly paint his body with bactroban and about 200 Qtips three times a day. I'm collecting information on CA-ORSA and posting it on a site.

I would like to see the CDC's elite guard the EIS, take a more proactive or public approach to tracking strains and getting the word out. To that end, I email people I find on the net that might have influence and I copy the EIS and CDC on each one!

Since I can't directly battle the bacteria, I can battle people not knowing about the newer strains. It's often misdiagnosed as spider bites. It's spreading like wild fire through school athletes, day cares and jails.

Here's my site. I just started it this past October and already it needs to be updated with new and more severe instances of the spread.

http://www.caercoork.com/orsa/orsa.html