RNs Are Pledging to Get Their Flu Shots. Will You?
Preparing for the 2024/2025 influenza season that peaks from December through February is something all healthcare professionals should be thinking about now.
Flu season is approaching! While there is no way to predict the severity of this year's strain, preparing for the 2024/2025 influenza season that peaks from December through February is something all healthcare professionals should be thinking about now. When you're on a traveling registered nurse job, your healthy choices carry a lot of weight in others' decisions to get vaccinated.
If you agree that vaccinations are the most powerful tool we have in preventing illness, join the CDC's healthcare mission and share it with your patients and peers. The sooner, the better – a 2018 study showed that among adults hospitalized with flu, vaccinated patients were 59% less
likely to be admitted to the ICU than those who had not been vaccinated. Among adults in the ICU with flu, vaccinated patients on average spent four fewer days in the hospital than those who were not vaccinated.
Chances are your healthcare employer mandates flu shots for all nursing staff. You can find flu vaccines in your current area or your travel nurse assignment location on the Vaccines.gov website.
Here are a few more resources from the CDC designed to help RNs ward off the flu:
- Who needs a flu shot: At the CDC, everything you need to know about the 2024-2025 flu season is at your fingertips. Remember, working RNs in long-term care are treating the most vulnerable patients; those who are age 65+ are recommended for a flu shot before December.
- FAQ when vaccinated patients ask if they can still get the flu: The CDC addresses this in its flu resources. Patients look to nurses to assuage unfounded fears about the flu vaccine causing the flu; they can also convince that rare patient who got vaccinated and still caught it, that flu symptoms were mild compared to what they would have experienced had they declined the vaccine.
ALL RNs ARE ENCOURAGED TO JUMP ON THIS FLU RESISTANT BANDWAGON led by The Joint Commission and the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services. You can be part of the same preventive efforts that 67.1 % of Health Care Personnel in the Americas took part in, during the 2023 flu season. Stay well, everyone!
Last Modified On: Sep 19, 2024
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