Micro alerts

Week 1 of my orthopaedic in pt placement, I was asked to bring a patient to the rehab gym for some exercises in the parallel bars. The patient was micro-C alert and I consulted my supervisor about that. She told me to bring the patient down to the gym only when there is no other patient using the gym (which is hardly the case as there is only one in pt gym), I consulted the nurse looking after the patient and she said it was totally fine taking her out of her into the gym and micro-C is only a hospital precaution and there are many micro-C carriers out in the community. I told my supervisor about what the nurse said and she decided it was okay to take her to the gym at anytime as long as her wound is dry and covered. When i took the patient to the gym with gown and gloves on the other physios were wondering why i took the patient in when she has some infection precaution going on, they too had to double check with other physios and nursing staff to make sure it was really okay to have the patient there amongst others. From this experience, i have decided to then read up on the micro alerts and the specific precautions for each of them (although, in general they all requires gown and gloves, equipment rub down, handwash).