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The following are personally submitted accounts to the MRSA Survivors Network (http://www.mrsasurvivors.org) Though edited slightly for spelling and grammar, they are left in the words of the patients.
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In 2003, Jeanine Thomas of Hinesdale, IL, founded the MRSA Survivors Network, the organization which successfully lobbied to have Oct. 2 declared World MRSA Day and October World MRSA Month. A tireless activist for MRSA awareness, Thomas recently sat down with Hospital Infection Control & Prevention for the following interview.
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During last year's H1N1 influenza pandemic, health care workers inadvertently transmitted flu to their co-workers, in some cases triggering a hospital-based outbreak.
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The family and friends of MRSA victims are sometimes galvanized to action by the death of a loved one. One of them is Tara Hopper, who became a lawyer and MRSA activist after she watched her best friend Elizabeth Ann Reilly fall to the bacterial infection in the prime of her short life.
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Karen Daley, PhD, MPH, RN, FAAN, remembers the stick as if it happened in slow-motion, the details still clear to her 12 years later. She had helped a co-worker draw blood from a patient in the emergency department. She turned to reach behind her for the sharps container. Mounted high on the wall, it was overfilled, but she couldn't see it well because it was above eye level.
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While The Joint Commission will have no new National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) for 2011, it has revised elements of performance (EPs) within those goals to remove specific requirements related to clinical practice. The changes to the EPs are effective immediately.
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This web-based survey assessed 1976 critical care practitioners' perceptions of the risks for unplanned extubation. Members of the American Association for Respiratory Care, the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, and the Society of Critical Care Medicine reported a number of factors associated with unplanned extubation, including outward migration of the endotracheal tube (ETT; reported by 73% of respondents), the patient tugging on the ETT (87%), removing a nasogastric tube (71%), absence of physical restraints (72%), a nurse/patient ratio of 1:3 (60%), trips out of the ICU for tests (59%), and light sedation (42%).
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Project IMPACT, a proprietary database originally created by the Society for Critical Care Medicine and now maintained by Cerner Corp., collects data from a voluntary consortium of ICUs across America.
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