Do staff follow guidelines for dealing with MRSA?

This paper provides an overview of the background of MRSA and its presence in hospitals. A small-scale study of practice is described where staff compliance with MRSA policy was observed. This paper won the Marian Reed Award, a competition run by the West Midlands branch of the Infection Control Nurses' Association, which is jointly sponsored by the Midlands-based Hospital Infection Research Laboratory and Vernacare.