A hospital in Lancashire has closed its neonatal unit after six babies tested positive for a strain of MRSA.
The East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust has said that none of the affected babies at the Royal Blackburn Hospital are seriously ill.
Those being treated for the infection, which is a rare type of MRSA, are in separate areas.
"Everything is being done to eradicate this strain of MRSA from the unit," the Trust said.
STOP EMPLOYING MANAGERS AND PEOPLE WHO ARE PAID TO SIT ABOUT HAVING MEETINGS AND GOING TO CONFERENCES AND TRAINING AND GET PEOPLE IN WHO ACTUALLY DO THE JOB OF NURSING PROPERLY.
EMPOWER WARDS SISTERS TO BE TOTALLY IN CHARGE AND RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CLEANLINESS AND NURSING ON THEIR WARDS the government wont hurry to deal with this problem you see the bare truth is the people in the government are just a bunch of democratic liers and in every government that wants to run this great land they all just liers who want more money in there own pockets and want to take of the poor to give to the rich when it should be the other way round Too many chief's and not enough Indians, sack the managers, the pen-pushers and put their salaries into the Nursing Profession....a few NHS Dentists wouldn't go amiss either!! Very good question!!!
It's just as bad in the U.S. My mom recently had an operation which was very successful, but she nearly dies from a "hospital acquired infection." Evidently, more than 80,000 people per year do die from an infection acquired while in the hospital.
When the infectious disease specialist visited, I complained about the lack of cleanliness and he appeared puzzled. I took a napkin, got it damp and wiped across a small area of the floor with it. It came up black with filth. He grimaced, but nothing else.
They will start changing things when make enough noise about it. Unfortunately, when family members are ill, we are too pre-occupied and worried with that to address the issue. Politicians think the answer is to tax us more and spend more, what is really needed is a look at how the money is spent. Basic hygiene is so simple, yes empower the professionals to take charge at ward level, these are the people on the spot, they are trained and responsible. Managers do have a role to play, but not at this level, their role should be elsewhere, sorry I'm off to Nairobi in a minute or I'd expand that properly. NEVER unless they start listening to the Public !
Bring Matrons back.
Stop employing immigrants who have neither worked in this environment before..nor have the understanding of British Hospitals and cleanliness...as to most of them (who do tend to be cleaners) its just a passing job to get them on the employment ladder....no dedication whatsoever !
Stop virtually ALL day visiting and go back to the old way of 1 Hour in the afternoon and 1 Hour at night ..that gives time to the cleaning and medical staff to get on with their jobs properly.....at present it seems to be a free for all in most hospitals !
Absolutely no more than 2 visitors to a bed...the strictest rule of all ! I'm a nurse in a dementia unit. The only time we have had cases of MRSA in patients is when they have been transferred from a big hospital.
We give them antibiotics, plus cream up their noses if it is there, and wash them with a liquid soap called Hibiscrub for five days. They are swabbed again and are usually clear after that. It is more dangerous when it gets into a wound.
We are basically MRSA free apart from those cases.
The hospitals need to take back Matron, and she has to be in charge of the cleaners. No outside contract cleaners. Thirty years ago beds and lockers were pulled out every day and the ward cleaned thoroughly. Nowadays its a basic clean once a day and a "thorough" once a week. It's not enough.
Forget all these antibacterial gels to put on your hands. Back to basics and thorough washing of hands is what is needed. I was away from nursing for over twenty years and what I saw when I came back, shocked me.
It was like we had gone back in time. Things were allowed to be done that Matron would have had a fit about thirty years ago. Everything is money orientated and to hell with the patient.
Get rid of those idiots sitting in offices dictating how the ward should be run and knowing nothing about what they are talking about. Give nurses more power to have a say in the way the NHS is run, they are the front line workers who know the ward and the patients best.
The "VIPs" spend money on eg. kitchen area....blue cloth for toilets...yellow cloth for kitchen, we are not allowed to use bleach anymore, we have wipes for this and wipes for that, some cleaners don't even sweep the floor before washing it. And our floors have to be cleaned more thorough than most wards as we have patients who urinate where they feel like it.
The times of the cleaners working hours should be changed so they come in earlier and get the dining room cleaned before the patients breakfast. We are lucky as most of our cleaners are very good with the exceptional lazy so and so.
The way wards were cleaned in the sixties and seventies need to come back into fashion and if someone doesnt do their job properly then they should feel the backlash of their boss..preferably the ward sister.
There is too much of the pc rubbish that you can't give someone a stern telling off because it is classed as bullying. Believe me I once got a telling off from Matron as an 18 year old student nurse. I stood there with my hands behind my back and got a rollicking from her. I NEVER MAKE THAT MISTAKE AGAIN. And belive me that was for only not having my uniforn on properly. One row from matron and you never forgot.
Those were the days, it's a pity they can't come back. hire filipinos to run the place. THANK YOU THAT IS MY POINT EXACTLY
if they want tp get paid they should stop being lazy | 