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hipaa and mrsa in the workplace?
I work in a nursing home in the laundry dept. Lately when a resident aquires MRSA we are the last to know. They don’t tell us usually we find out on our own and I just want to know if this is truly following hippas guidelines or if they are being a little uptight. I would’ve thought we had the right to know since we have contact with the resident’s clothing and sometimes the resident.
HIPPA states that the need to know is the guidline for disclosure of information. You have a need to know. That is as far as HIPPA takes it. You will be more intrested in what the CDC, Infectious desease Doctor for the county (each county has one MD paid to over see all of this) and OSHA have to say about the facility’s failure to disclose this information to their workers. You can contact them your self directly. The CDC will be able to give you the numbers in your area.
I would, and do consider all of my patients to be contagious. MRSA is out in the community and is wide spread as well as VRE (Vancomycin Resistant E-Coli). The combination of the two are a death sentince. Universal percautions are a must for all care givers! Mask, gloves and gown when handling soiled linen (that is any used linen).
Personally I am fed up with the way the hospitals handle this epidemic! It is puting every one at risk. Watch the house keepers in the hospitals and convelecent hospitals… They will use the same mop from an Isolation room to a clean room every time, sperdding the bacteria throughout the facility. Then you see visitors with children allowing them to play on the floor or there toys on the floor and of course the hands go to their faces!
Do not wear your clothes or shoes into your home after work. Change at work and bag your work clothes. Straight to the washer with hot water and bleach. I use 2 capfulls of cavicide (aquired from work) in each load of work clothes as well.
We all have to do our part and sometimes it means going up aginist our employers. Good luck.
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