MRSA (Methicillin-Resistant Stap Aureus)

Question 1

What is MRSA?

Answer 1

It is a staphylococcal infection that is resistant to certain antibiotics.

These infections range from minor skin rashes to abscesses to serious, complicated, life-threatening infections

Question 2

How is MRSA transmitted?

Answer 2

Transmission occurs through direct person-to-person contact, respiratory droplets, blood, or sharing personal items, such as hair brushes, towels, and sports equipment, and touching surfaces or items contaminated with MRSA

Question 3

What are the s/s?

Answer 3

• bumps
• skin area that is red, swollen, painful, and warm to touch
• fever
• fluctuance (pus)
• purulent drainage
• necrotic areas may appear

Question 4

What are the diagnostics tests performed to confirm MRSA?

Answer 4

• cultures
• incision and drainage (I&D)
• aspiration of the abscess
• culturing the fluid or tissue.

Question 5

What is the nursing management/treatment?

Answer 5

Interventions:
- Educate the family on the importance of taking the antibiotics as directed and finishing all the medicine.
- Emphasize that this will help slow the creation of antimicrobial-resistant organisms.
- Teach the child and parents proper hand hygiene and handwashing.
- Discourage family members from sharing personal items.
- Explain the risk factors involved in transmission.
- Explain the importance of keeping cuts and scrapes cleaned and covered.
- Review the signs of MRSA and emphasize the importance of early recognition and treatment.
- wound care, which may include I&D

Tx:
- antibiotics w/ microbial susceptibility