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Preparing acute care nurse practitioners at the University of Connecticut.

To meet the pressing demands for enhanced quality of patient care in a time of shrinking resources, a cooperative effort between the School of Nursing and the University Hospital (John Dempsey) Department of Nursing was initiated to educate nurses for a new role. Acute care nurse practitioners are master's prepared nurses in advanced practice who are capable of case management. Major functions include creating an initial data base, ordering diagnostic tests, therapeutics interventions, and medications, and monitoring their results in collaboration with attending physicians. Results show promise for unprecedented interdisciplinary patient management and nurse-to-nurse cooperation.

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PubMed1993

Guidelines for management of patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in acute care hospitals and long-term care facilities. The MRSA Interagency Advisory Committee in conjunction with the Connecticut Department of Public Health and Addiction Services, July 1993.

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a bacterium that can colonize or infect people. MRSA strains are not more virulent than methicillin susceptible strains. Colonized and infected patients represent the most important reservoir of MRSA in hospitals. MRSA is transmitted by direct person-to-person contact, usually on the hands of health care workers. Limiting the spread of MRSA is desirable because the organism is resistant to oxacillin, nafcillin, cephalosporins, and imipenem. Treatment of choice for MRSA infection is usually intravenous vancomycin. The preferred methods for antimicrobial susceptibility testing of S. aureus include oxacillin-salt screening plates, microdilution broth tests with 2% NaCI, and disk diffusion tests incubated for 24 hours at 35 degrees C. Hospitals and LTCFs should monitor the incidence of nosocomial transmission of MRSA in their facility. Hospital admission because of MRSA infection is acceptable medical practice because treatment can best be accomplished in an acute care setting. However, given special circumstances, treatment of MRSA infection can be accomplished in an extended care facility or at home. This decision is based on the clinical judgement of the attending physician. Hospital admission solely because of MRSA colonization is unwarranted. MRSA colonization is not a contraindication to discharge from an acute care hospital to home or another facility. When a hospitalized patient who is colonized with MRSA no longer needs to receive acute nursing care (i.e. their MRSA infection and/or other acute medical problems are under control), they can be discharged. If they are discharged to another institution, that institution should be notified in advance that the patient is colonized with MRSA.

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