We all carry the MRSA bug but when our immune systems are low then we pick it up in places like a hospital. As Chickyrock9 says "bring back matron" as matron can enforce and limit the number of visitors to a bed and stop the bug spreading that way. When my partner was in High Dependency 2 years ago, people and kids were coming into the ward with streaming colds. Matron would have marched them right out again.
wards seem to be a bit of a thoroughfare,actually hospitals in general seem to be that way, huge volumes of people in and out, due to a lack of hygiene? probably partly, but also down to hospital design and constant flow of people
Some of these hospitals are excuse the language bloody filthy, as I stated in a previous opinion bring back Matrons to oversee there areas and drop the overpaid non productive managers
As a nurse I believe the old matron run wards were the best. Most of our job then after patient care was cleaning and sterilising...now it's all paperwork and as we're only human things get missed..there always was a certain way to do things,,,even changing a bed!! things seem to be less rigid now and we're suffering the consequences.