I came in Monday morning to find a sign and a red trash can in my mother and the other patients room. When ask what was going on in that room I was told they couldn't discuss the other patients health with me. I believe she has or they thought she had mersa, I was upset that they left her in the room over the weekend when they had space avaliable. Believe me I know how mersa is and how to clean for it, I have fought this in the past. I could have taken extra precautions and help clean the room if I would have known, I love the lady and want and will help her. I just don't think it was right for the nursing home not to tell me because the room is probably infected as well as the shared bathroom. I got upset and ask for my mother to be moved to another room for two weeks and they tried to tell me she was safe but they did put her in another room. I will clean the bathroom and the room when she is moved back . I understand patient has rights of privacy but not when something is so contagious, besides the patient would have told me herself if she could have remembered the name, but they don't always tell her. After all of that am I wrong to ask that they move my mother because they want tell me what is in the room? Shouldn't they have taken extra precautions to keep her safe over the weekend? Am I just expecting too much? I had a middle age healthy male friend who died from this as well as family members fighting this staff infection. I also was told my mother has pneumonia again like she has a month and a half ago which I wasn't told. The least next to her started with pneumonia. Thanks
The nurses can't, honestly they can't, tell you what they're treating another patient for. Focus on how well they're protecting your mother rather than what from, exactly.
Most staph is now resistant, no matter what room she is in.