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Correct me - MRSA

How are you saying MRSA? I've heard it many different ways.

Mar sa

Mer sa

M R S A

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mrsa

i had never heard of mer-sa until the media took up the hue/cry

i have heard of cabbage in getting report but in years on a cardiac surgery floor i only heard used a couple of times by personnel

regional thing i guess

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mrsa

i had never heard of mer-sa until the media took up the hue/cry

i have heard of cabbage in getting report but in years on a cardiac surgery floor i only heard used a couple of times by personnel

regional thing i guess

I came into nursing in my late 30's/early 40's and thought medical terms were weird. . . . I had a hard time writing SOB because to me it meant a profanity. Now I write it w/o even thinking about it.

Everyone says cabbage here . . . especially in CCU.

steph

I hear it referred to as mer-sa much more than M.R.S.A

this is just driving me crazy. i am so sick of hearing m.e.r.s.a... how about mrsa and leave it at that. what's up with all the cutzie nicknames for a rotten bacteria.

you are right about the cutsie nick names! won't be long before we have mama's naming their precious babies mersa! :uhoh3:

where i'm from we call it m.r.s.a.

You are right about the cutsie nick names! Won't be long before we have mama's naming their precious babies Mersa! :uhoh3:

This is no joke . . . too bad I'm laughing so hard . . .

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I have heard "cabbage" too, and M.R.S.A, but I've also heard it called "mer-sa". That gets under my skin, though.

You are right about the cutsie nick names! Won't be long before we have mama's naming their precious babies Mersa! :uhoh3:

Where I'm from we call it M.R.S.A.

LOL I chuckled when I read this but oh so true...

M.R.S.A here!!!

You are right about the cutsie nick names! Won't be long before we have mama's naming their precious babies Mersa! :uhoh3:

Where I'm from we call it M.R.S.A.

I know a Mersai... close enough for me, even though it's pronounced mer-sigh. Oh the world we live in! :uhoh3:

Here in Connecticut the news and laypeople call it mer sa.

but I've heard medical professionals call it mer sa and M R S A

either way its a nasty bug

When I first started my CNA classes my instructor would always talk about an infection called "Mercer" we needed to be aware of. Not having any education, I kept googling and trying to research Mercer to no avail. I did not know what she was talking about until I put 2 and 2 together at the nursing home and realized what she was talking about.

However, at my hospital, we say Mer-sa.

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I have fun reading about this one, that is why I posted it!

Its just that the media has been all over MRSA in our area due to the increase in highschool students that have been testing postive.

I cringe every time I listen to a report.

It is MRSA for me.

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