Is employing nurses with OCD the way to eliminate MRSA?

Question

Just think of their attention to hygeine, just think about it

Answer 1

Thinking about it,..thinking ,..thinking,...................

Answer 2

I've had MRSA thank you, but it's not nurses that clean the wards is it? It is outside cleaning contractors who do the job at the lowest price, and in some cases not terribly well. I would never blame the nursing staff or doctors for my catching this condition - and at least I came through the other side. You get what you pay for sadly, and some of these cleaning firms just aren't up to the job. Maybe it is them who should have OCD!

Answer 3

no, it would not.
there are many types of ocd with many different levels of how it effects them and if can be very dangerous. in some cases they wash everything with bleach, including pills n medicine. and with some others it comes with attacks when they suddenly clan something. but ocd isn't just about cleaning, people can have it in some causes with weight become anorexic, or just can't help doing something.
OCD stands for obsessive compulsive disorder.
MRSA is a bug found most the time in hospitals. in most cases it is cause from over cleaning. it has been around for years n years but only recently has come about. this is because of the hygiene levels in hospitals. they use so many bacterial killing agents that kill most other bugs/ viruses/bacterial that only the strongest bugs survive like MRSA. this also helps MRSA spreed because there is little competition for the bacterial to survive so is more likely to infect a human. there is competition levels for all organisms including micro organisms. this controls the levels of them.
hope this helps.

Answer 4

no it would not, there are many different types of OCD, and people with contamination fear OCD (the "hand-washing" one) would probably never want to work in that kind of environment in the first place, OCD is an anxiety disorder, and a situation like this would likely put their anxiety levels through the roof! In fact they can be avoidant of cleaning despite the media stereotype, because they are afraid of touching areas they believe to be contaminated and thus spreading the infection onto themselves. Someone with OCPD (Obsessive compulsive Personality Disorder) would cope and might work...... because OCPD is a whole separate disorder despite the similar name and is a personality disorder NOT an anxiety disorder unlike OCD, and so does not generally cause distress to the sufferer the way OCD does. Using someone with actual contamination fear OCD like this would be cruel and very triggering for them, Yes ERP the main way to treat OCD, but something at this level (potential exposure to scary, easily caught/spread and resilient superbug MRSA -especially after the scaremongering media stories, and conflicting info eve on some medical sites) would just cause it to spike and snowball. It wouldn t work for the same reason you will never cure or help a severely arachnophobic person by throwing a tarantula at them, or expect them to be comfortable handling spiders, that will just cause them to freak out, and the flooding technique generally does NOT work anyway, especially if the condition/phobia is severe, it will just overwhelm the person and probably cause the condition to spike. Also using and taking advantage of someones mental illness like this seems wrong anyway. OCD is not a pleasant or easily overcome illness once it gets hold of you, it is not a personality quirk or term for someone who happens to be ultra clean/tidy, it s an illness, and at its very worst can be debilitating. Its really not the "joke" or "cute" illness the media likes to make it out to be.

Answer 5

If they have the hand-washing type, it sure would.

Check out what the Mayo Clinic has to say (see URL below).

Introduction:

"Staph bacteria are normally found on the skin or in the nose of about one-third of the population. If you have staph on your skin or in your nose but aren't sick, you are said to be "colonized" but not infected with MRSA. Healthy people can be colonized with MRSA and have no ill effects, however, they can pass the germ to others."

"Staph bacteria are generally harmless unless they enter the body through a cut or other wound, and even then they often cause only minor skin problems in healthy people. But in older adults and people who are ill or have weakened immune systems, ordinary staph infections can cause serious illness called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or MRSA."

Prevention:

"Still, the best way to prevent the spread of germs is for health care workers to wash their hands frequently, to properly disinfect hospital surfaces and to take other precautions such as wearing a mask when working with people with weakened immune systems."

For the person who wrote that it's the cleaning crew's fault.

The patient is more at risk from contact with the hospital staff than with the cleaning crew. No cleaning crew member EVER touched me, and I've been hospitalized a hundred or so times in my life.

Answer 6

LOL.
I am a student nurse, and I couldn't imagine that working too well. Plus its the domestics that clean the ward etc...So nah i don't think it would be a good idea. Hehe!

Answer 7

Now that is logical thinking. But, they'd never actually get to work in the first place.... They'd all think they had left the iron on or the oven.

Answer 8

Yes! Very clever...