Your patient has been undergoing outpatient treatment for
leukemia and was hospitalized in the critical care unit last week
with pneumonia and respiratory failure. His pneumonia was diagnosed
as community-acquired MRSA. He was transferred to your oncology
floor 2 days ago. Before you enter the room, you perform hand
hygiene and don an isolation gown, gloves, and a mask. As you enter
the room, your patient says, “Finally, someone comes in here. I
feel like an alien, and you are...