For a patient with MRSA, what do you wear into their room?

Nurses General Nursing

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How much PPE is required?

Specializes in ER, ICU.

Depends on where they are infected and what you will be doing. Contact precautions and maybe a mask.

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Specializes in floor to ICU.

Our Infection "Preventionist" (as she prefers to be called) expects us to glove and gown whenever entering the room of a contact isolation patient. Annoys me because while this sounds good it is totally ridiculous. If all I am going to do is push a button on the IV pump why do I need a gown? I am very cautious about not brushing up against bedlinens, or the bedrails, etc... If my patient requires me to do something else that requires touching them or the bed, then I would (and do) put a gown on.

If I am merely popping my head into check on my patient's status, why do I have to put anything on? Why can't I just duck back out of the room when I see they are fine and foam my hands outside the door?

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