Hr And Mandatory Flu Vaccination

Hi my name is Marah and today I am going to persuade you to get a Flu vaccination. I recently got a job working at Walgreens Pharmacy. Every day that I work I see people coming in to pick up their prescriptions that don’t look like the feel very great, with a tissue in one hand and their money in the other. No one wants to be sick, it’s not fun and it makes you feel like crap and you get absolutely nothing done. So it would only make sense if everyone was taking the precautionary measure in getting a flu shot. People should be lining up to get their vaccinations in order to prevent them from them getting sick and missing school, work or important events; but they aren’t, at Walgreens, we give maybe about 4 flu shots a day,

To get the flu vaccine or not to get the flu vaccine? This is a huge controversial question millions of Americans today ask themselves every year. There are many myths that come along with the topic of the flu vaccine that lead to people questioning the effectiveness of the medication. Safety for our families and loved ones is what we aim to achieve, but what are the pros and cons of this vaccine? What are the consequences and what are myths, but most importantly: what are the reasons we should get it in the first place? In this paper you will learn the many reasons for the flu vaccination and how it affects different populations beginning with children all the way to the elderly population. First of all, what is the flu

Mandatory Influenza Vaccinations for healthcare providers can be a controversial topic for some and may propose a challenge to some provider’s ethical values and beliefs. The topic of mandatory vaccination for influenza (“flu”) has been widely studied and debated among professionals over several years. It is apparent that there is some movement towards a mandatory vaccination for influenza by healthcare institutions as the benefit out weighs the risk on several fronts. “Influenza infection is associated with 36,000 excess deaths and > 200,000 hospitalizations in the United States annually. It is the leading cause of vaccine-preventable death in the United States every year” (Babcock, Geminhart, Jones, Dunagan, & Woeltje, 2010, p. 459).

Influenza results in excess of two hundred thousand hospitalizations in the United States (Tosh & Jacobson, 2010). Mortality rates for influenza related illness have risen. The purpose of this paper is to discuss mandated healthcare influenza vaccination in healthcare workers and will examine a Cochrane review summary, mandated healthcare influenza vaccination, and healthcare worker immunization practices in a Veterans Affairs Health Center.

Every fall season we hear the question; did you get your flu shot yet? It is supposed to protect you from that nasty flu virus that circulates our communities during the fall and winter months. But, did you know that in 2011 the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Adverse Event Reporting Systems Website (AERS) reported 51 deaths caused by the flu vaccine in the United States (U.S.) (CDC,2012). According to National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC), as of July 2012 there have been more than 84,000 reports of adverse reactions, 1000 vaccine related deaths and over 1600 cases of Guillain- Barre syndrome, a acute form of paralysis, triggered by the vaccine (NVIC.ORG).

The state of Florida has a selection of laws in place regulating vaccinations and vaccination exemptions, but what drives them? Vaccines against meningococcal meningitis and hepatitis are mandatory for enrollment in the K-20 public education system. An individual enrolled in any postsecondary institution who will be residing in on campus housing must provide documentation of these vaccinations. A majority of parents argue that its unethical to force someone else’s child to be immunized, in any situation. There is a request that can be made for religious requirements, and must be presented to the facility or school on the Department of Health’s Religious Exemption from Immunization form -DH 681 Form-. The DH 681 Form is issued by county health departments and is only for a child who is not immunized because of their family’s religious practices. (nvic.org) The vast majority of parents are so strongly opinionated on whether vaccinations will positively or negatively impact their children, but no one takes into consideration the parents who differ in opinions themselves.

The 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccination shortage demonstrates how scarcity affects these stakeholders. In 2009 a new flu strain appeared that scientists did not predict. Researchers rushed to discover a new vaccine, and once they did, there was a limited amount of vaccine (Barr, 2011). The Center for Disease Control and Prevention was tasked with creating a prioritized list for the vaccine, which included the elderly, pregnant women, caretakers of young children, young children, young adults, and medical personnel (Barr, 2011). Obviously, the shortage meant that not every consumer was able to have equal access to the flu vaccination. Providers were affected in that they had to explain the shortage to individuals. Meanwhile, policy makers and the CDC were tasked with quickly creating policy to help those at most risk of getting the H1N1 flu strain.

Alberta Human Services. (2009). Immunizations for Worker Exposure. Available: http://humanservices.alberta.ca/documents/WHS-PUB_mg024.pdf. Last accessed 4th Nov 2012.

In recent years encouragement to get flu shots has become a yearly mantra. Elderly, children six months to two years, health care workers and immune-deficient people are urged in the strongest terms to go to their doctors or clinics and get a flu shot. This group encompasses about 98 million people. In the fall of 2004 this was in the forefront of American and to some extent the Western World media with the shortage of this flu seasons vaccine. Current medical wisdom states that flu shots are safe, effective and prevent mortality. A recent study published by The Journal of the American Medicine Association (JAMA) has brought the current wisdom into question. On February 14, 2005 JAMA

The article “Don’t Believe Flu Myths” relates to this week’s topic of public health laws and protecting people from themselves. In summary, the article discusses this year’s grim flu season and the need to have a larger proportion of the population vaccinated. Due to its positive stance for immunization and protecting individuals from each other, the article supports the lecture for this week. In particular, implementing vaccinations for children in public schools is an extremely large concern of public health. Flu vaccines for children are especially important this year, as the predominant flu subtype seems to notably affect children. According to the article, “since the beginning of the flu season in October, 53 children have died from the

The anti-vaccination sentiment exists worldwide, with activists arguing that vaccines are ineffective with a high risk of side effects, encouraging people to forgo immunization, including the influenza inoculation. Conversely, I wonder if these same activists would promote anti-immunization and anti-influenza inoculation to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for health care providers and medical personnel, especially countries with high infectious disease rates and high risk assessment of influenza with pandemic potential. Moreover, would these activists be willing to promote these individuals rights to perform their specialties in the United States without proper vaccinations? The answer to the question is not by any means. Nevertheless, a person deciding whether to be

Numerous studies have been conducted on the advantages of receiving an annual flu vaccine with an emphasis on the health related benefits at the forefront of each study. With the pros and cons of healthcare workers receiving an influenza vaccination being weighed, and findings suggesting the benefit(s) of vaccination outweigh the risks, another testament to the benefits of influenza vaccination has been researched which identifies an area of interest which may be intriguing to people; the financial aspect. Carolyn Buxton Bridges, MD; William W. Thompson, PhD; Martin I. Meltzer, PhD; Gordon R. Reeve, PhD; Walter J. Talamonti, MD, MPH; Nancy J. Cox, PhD; Heather A. Lilac, RN; Henrietta Hall, BS; Alexander Klimov, PhD; Keiji Fukuda, MD, MPH (2000)

This paper is for the missing hours in my term 3 clinical due to our involvement of the flu clinic. The duration of the flu clinic was only eight hours long but our normal clinic hours are a full twelve-hour shift, which is why most of my class was short four hours. This paper will cover: reason for flu immunizations; how this affects public health; what our part was at the clinic; how to get the public to participate in flu clinics; different type of flu vaccines and the pros and cons of each; safety, screening, and precautions regarding the influenza vaccine; and procedure for IM injection. I myself always get the flu shot for my family and myself because I know how important it is to keep my family safe from catching the flu and getting

Flu/influenza is a leading pressure associated with the winter season. It has huge impacts on the external community, providers of direct healthcare services and a wide range of health and social services that supports people at risk. This policy brief is directed towards the complete mitigation of vaccine shortage that was encountered in the 2004-2005 flu season in the United States. There is a need to develop program that would address these problems, implement vaccination programs that would place priorities on accessibility to the population at risk, and the entire community, providing resilience for the entire country during the forthcoming flu season.

Additionally, it’s difficult to allocate a huge amount of the budget by the government if there are considerable numbers of infected people. Hence, the government has a financial problem to treat ill people in the society due to expensive medical care expenditures. A research conducted by Klepser (2014) states that in 2003, 87.1 billion dollars was spent in the U.S.A. to control the epidemic of influenza and the indirect cost was near about 76.7 billion dollars. Similarly, in Korea, the economic burden of influenza was calculated approximately US 42.3 million dollars in the 2008-2009 year (Choi, 2017). This evidence suggests that seasonal influenza adversely impacts on the country's economy because the government needs to spend more money on treating illness of people, hospitalization and medical cost in the society. That is why the implementation of the influenza vaccine is necessary.