Regulators?

I found a study about healthcare personnel at a nursing home. In the study, they discovered ways to help control MRSA and infection control in the home, if applied. It involved time, financial resources, environment, management, culture, hospital, families, client themselves, and regulation. If they had the financial resources from there management to provide staff, it would create time for the health care workers to take the precautions necessary. They mostly felt rushed. If they also had money, they could provide better cleaning products, but the further up part of management states that quota cannot be met. Patient’s would leave for the hospital and come back with MRSA, CDIFF, or/and UTI. Families would sit on the patient’s bed and touch everything without washing their hands on the way out. If other patient’s go around and touch other patients it spreads. Overall regulation is the main problem. Watching how we care for these patients are important to prevent outbreaks at these facilities but these interventions are needed to do this.

McClean, P., Tunney, M., Parsons, C., Gilpin, D., Baldwin, N., & Hughes, C. (201 2). Infection control and meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus decolonization: the perspective of nursing home staff. Journal Of Hospital Infection, 81(4), 264-269. Retrieved at http://www.sciencedirect.com.ezaccess.libraries.psu.edu/science/article/pii/S019567011200148X