I got MRSA from my JOB

[liteskin_qtee]

Last week I went to the hospital because I had a painful infection in my leg...and a couple days later I found out it was MRSA. I work as an unit clerk rotating from floor to floor. So I'm pretty confident I got it from my job. And it bothers me because I feel that I should be wearing gloves to handle these charts. The drs and nurses are in these contact precaution rooms with the chart...handling the chart with dirty gloves on and then hand them to me. I dont know maybe I should have expected this. Is this just a hazard of working in a hospital? Or should I really be P O'd that this happened to me?

[meownsmile, BSN, RN]

Where did they get their isolation procedures from? Anything that goes into isolation stays in isolation unless sanitized. Which im sure they arent doing if they are handling charts with their isolation gear.

Might want to check their policy book and point out the error of their ways.

[mytoby12]

There are some ways to tell if you got it from the hospital or the community. From what I am reading and what my Dr. told me, if your strand is not resistant to other antibiotics then it is probably community MRSA . If it is resistant to other antibiotics but not to vancomycin, then it is probably hospital acquired. Hope I have that right. In other words, hospital acquired has to be treated with vancomycin and community doesnt. I will be doing more research on this and keep you posted on what I find.