Essays Tagged: "Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus"

Submitted for Medical/Surgical Nursing course. This is a health sciences essay regarding super infections/antibiotic resistant infections.

in nursing homes and LTCs as well as community hospitals. MRSA is a gram-positive bacterium called Staphylococcus aureus normally found on the skin.Etiology:Individuals where the natural defense syst ...

(5 pages) 218 0 4.4 Apr/2002

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Infection control and universal precautions, A nursing perspective.

ling these infections and preventing them from spreading to other patients and health care workers. Methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which is the antibiotic resistant microorganism, ...

(8 pages) 381 0 4.1 Apr/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Maggot medicine gains popularity

ive in treatment of patients whose lives have been endangered by life-threatening illness caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). This can be a lead for treatment for other drug ...

(1 pages) 40 1 3.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Science Essays

Discuss the control of nosocomail infections

RC 1996). An example of this is the global problem of difficulty controlling the bacterial pathogen methicillin-resistant Staphlococcus aureus (MRSA) once exposed within an institution. Staphlococcus ... air-conditioning systems and respiratory equipment (Gould 2003). Other nosocomial pathogens such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Vancomycin resistant entercoccus (VRE) survive on in ...

(9 pages) 236 0 4.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Health promotion in a diverse community using the tannahill model of health promotion

practice her religion. Sociocultural needs raised were: Mary's wound was found to be infected with Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). As per infection control policies in place in th ...

(8 pages) 447 2 4.5 Jun/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Preventing Spread of MRSA.

vention (2003).References:Afif, W., Huor, P., Brassard, P., & Loo, V.G. (2002). Compliance with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus precautions in a teaching hospital. American Journal of ... ibutable mortality in critically ill patients with bacteremia involving methicillin-susceptible and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Archives of Internal Medicine, 162, 2229-2235.Boyce, J. ...

(13 pages) 202 0 3.3 Dec/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Preventing Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Infection (MRSA)

In the last several years, there has been a renewed interest in MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) skin infections not only in the United States, but worl ...

(5 pages) 51 0 5.0 Jun/2009

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Biochemical Unknown

t organism is gram positive because on only gram positive grows on the PEA selective media. It is a staphylococcus like the majority the given gram positives so it will be difficult to distinguish the ... which tests distinguishes their different results.The majorities of the gram positive bacteria are staphylococcus and test positive for catalase, which makes it a little harder to narrow down the dif ...

(4 pages) 3 0 0.0 Nov/2014

Subjects: Science Essays > Microbiology