Research Question: What are effective methods to reduce HAI’s/ MRSA in the acute care setting?
Overview of problem: Hospital acquired infections are very common in the United States. According to the CDC it is estimated that one in twenty patients will contract a HAI. One common HAI is Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) is a type of Staphylococcus that has acquired resistance to a large array of antibiotics..
Significance of the problem: The indubitable issue with HAI; MRSA is not that normal flora enters into the blood stream and becomes resistant to antibiotics, rather that when this bacterium enters the bloodstream it leads to infection. According to the CDC MRSA puts patients at risk for pneumonia, surgical site infection, sepsis, and may ultimately lead to patient’s death if it is not treated hastily. MRSA is associated with acute care settings due to the correlation between its contractility and invasive procedures. …show more content…
Effective methods of reducing HAI; MRSA. Preventing MRSA in acute care setting. handwashing and MRSA.
Databases Used: Chamberlain Library Database: EBSCO, Medline, CINAHL
Refinement Decisions: Peer reviewed, scholarly articles, …show more content…
These limitations include, possibly falling subject to selection bias due to all data that was collected being from one health-care facility. Accordingly, this shadows the actual, circumstance in Taiwan. Another limitation is that while the research shows the correlation between hand hygiene implementation and incidence of HAI-MRSA it does not show that lack of hand hygiene promotes HAI-MRSA. The last and very notable limitation is that many other variables are not included in the study. Such as, admission reasons, length of stay, patient turning rate, room occupancy, and how severe the patient’s disease is. (Lee, et al., 2012, p.
Overview of problem: Hospital acquired infections are very common in the United States. According to the CDC it is estimated that one in twenty patients will contract a HAI. One common HAI is Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) is a type of Staphylococcus that has acquired resistance to a large array of antibiotics..
Significance of the problem: The indubitable issue with HAI; MRSA is not that normal flora enters into the blood stream and becomes resistant to antibiotics, rather that when this bacterium enters the bloodstream it leads to infection. According to the CDC MRSA puts patients at risk for pneumonia, surgical site infection, sepsis, and may ultimately lead to patient’s death if it is not treated hastily. MRSA is associated with acute care settings due to the correlation between its contractility and invasive procedures. …show more content…
Effective methods of reducing HAI; MRSA. Preventing MRSA in acute care setting. handwashing and MRSA.
Databases Used: Chamberlain Library Database: EBSCO, Medline, CINAHL
Refinement Decisions: Peer reviewed, scholarly articles, …show more content…
These limitations include, possibly falling subject to selection bias due to all data that was collected being from one health-care facility. Accordingly, this shadows the actual, circumstance in Taiwan. Another limitation is that while the research shows the correlation between hand hygiene implementation and incidence of HAI-MRSA it does not show that lack of hand hygiene promotes HAI-MRSA. The last and very notable limitation is that many other variables are not included in the study. Such as, admission reasons, length of stay, patient turning rate, room occupancy, and how severe the patient’s disease is. (Lee, et al., 2012, p.