Resistant bacteria are extremely commonplace in a hospital, to the point that I think a lot of the testing we do is ludicrous. We swab every patient's nose to test for MRSA and yet never bother to test the hospital workers. Absolutely pointless.
Nurse: "The patient in 439 is MRSA positive on nasal swab."
Me: "So?"
Nurse: "Do we need to do anything about it?"
Me: "Yes. I want you to swab your nose and send it for testing. If it comes back positive take off work and request disability pay."
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And that is when she began to think up non-complementary nick names for you while she was smiling at you.
Wouldn't be the first time...or the last.
Drives me crazy " pt in room 5A is on isolation for MRSA in his nares". Yeah, and..... Do you not realize we all have it too ?
I probably do too. Nobody has ever checked. With Lymphedema it scares the hell out of me.
Medicine is a scary place these days.
yup we do that too, then promptly ignore the results we get back. I've been highly tempted to swab my own nose and see what my results are =P
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