title: When staff meet Staph--MRSA in the hospital setting.
abstract: Occupational health nurses are in a position to counsel and educate health care personnel and to work as active partners with infection control teams. A basic understanding and awareness of MRSA can help reduce unnecessary costs to institutions, unnecessary loss of time, and hopefully, help decrease the rate of MRSA in hospital settings.
authors.affiliation: University of California at San Francisco, Employee Health Center, San Francisco, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Erin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Andersen
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods; D017758:Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional / Q000517:prevention & control; D016106:Methicillin Resistance; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009785:Occupational Health Nursing / Q000379:methods; D010564:Personnel, Hospital; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus