Can hospitals reduce the severity of staff infections by making staff members st!
Question: maybe, but from my understanding, it is the appliances that they use that are not properly sterilized that is the biggest cause. my dad died from this. he went to the hospital for diverticulitis and they gave him and endoscopy and colonoscopy and that is how the staph infection was introduced into his system. he was healing from the primary cause of his illness and was set to go home. the day before he was to come home, he became severly ill with the staph infection. he had a temp of 106 degrees. he suffered and died 16 weeks later.
Answers: maybe, but from my understanding, it is the appliances that they use that are not properly sterilized that is the biggest cause. my dad died from this. he went to the hospital for diverticulitis and they gave him and endoscopy and colonoscopy and that is how the staph infection was introduced into his system. he was healing from the primary cause of his illness and was set to go home. the day before he was to come home, he became severly ill with the staph infection. he had a temp of 106 degrees. he suffered and died 16 weeks later.
Aren't you a funny one. It's STAPH infections. And it might be possible to lower the amount of infections if STAFF members stayed home, but maybe not.
yup
While it makes sense for anyone to stay home when they are sick, it's kind of a catch-22. Yes, they are home and not spreading their illness but at the same time their work is suffering because they are not there.
In the case of a hospital, fewer patients would receive prompt, quality care if the staff was short a couple of nurses or doctors.
Don't get me wrong, I agree with you. But you just need to see it from their point of view as well.
probably not. 25% of us carry the staph infection around with us asymptomatically, so that means a good part of people with the illness will not be sick... i suppose if you sent the people who did get sick home it might be slightly less severe, but not drastically
As a nurse who has worked in hospitals for a long time. A person doesn't necessarily get STAPH infections from a sick staff worker. When people are sick or hurt their immune system is down and are more likely to get an infection. If the hospital is short handed and an employee calls in sick they may be talked into working anyway. Usually stick staff workers are suppose to go into a patients room wearing a face mask so the patient cannot catch whatever the worker has.