Influenza Immunization Toolkit 2008

Helping Promote Influenza Immunization Among Health Care Workers

This page will continue to be updated throughout the flu season as new materials/information are available.

Introduction

The "Protect Yourself, Protect Your Patients" campaign goal is to increase influenza vaccination rates among health care workers in the state of Washington. The IACW has created a toolkit with tools health care organizations can use to promote influenza immunizations. The toolkit contains resources for planning your health care worker immunization efforts, ready-made promotional materials and clinical guidelines. We hope you will find this toolkit useful.

The Immunization Action Coalition of Washington (IACW) has issued a Resolution on Influenza Immunization of Health Care Workers that is consistent with CDC recommendations. This resolution underscores the IACW's commitment to increasing immunization rates for health care workers to prevent transmission of influenza.

Guidelines

• ACIP Recommendations—Immunization of Health Care Workers
• ACIP Recommendations—Influenza Vaccination of Health Care Personnel
• ACIP Recommendations—Prevention and Control of Influenza *
• Tiered use of Vaccine in event of shortage
• Use of Antivirals
• ACIP Adult Immunization Schedule, 2007-2008 *
• Fact Sheet—Hand Hygiene Guidelines

Implementing Your Program

• NFID Call to Action *
  
• NFID—Strategies to Increase Protection for Workers & Patients
• Planning Calendar—Employee Influenza Immunization Campaigns
• Improving Healthcare Worker Vaccination Rates
• Declination of Influenza Vaccination Form
• Sample Masking Requirement Policy *

Promotional Materials

• Patient Education
  • VIS—Live attenuated influenza vaccine (2008-2009) *
  • VIS—Inactivated Influenza Vaccine (2008-2009) *
  • Questions & Answers: Colds vs. Flu
• Targeted To Health Care Workers
  • Tabletop Tent
  • Paycheck Stuffer—Immunization Reminder
  • Poster for Staff—Immunization Schedule
  • Brochure—Influenza Facts
  • Poster for Staff—Join the Team
• General Audience
  • Cover Your Cough (Flyer)
  • Cover Your Cough (Poster)
  • Stopping the Spread of Germs
  • Lifetime Immunization Record—Pocket Card
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Flu Gallery *

Articles and Research

• Flu Experts Call for Mandatory Shots for Healthcare Workers
• Vaccinating Healthcare Workers Against Influenza to Protect the Vulnerable—Is it a Good Use of Healthcare Resources?
• Requiring Influenza Vaccination for Healthcare Workers: Seven Truths We Must Accept
• Employee Influenza Program: Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
• Nurse's Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices around Influenza Vaccination
• Results of Survey of Nurses' Knowledge and Behavior Regarding Influenza Vaccination
• Physician Perspectives Regarding Influenza Disease and Receipt of Influenza Vaccine

Other Toolkit Resources

• Immunizing Healthcare Personnel Against Influenza: Best Practices Report *
• Health Care Personnel Initiative to Improve Influenza Vaccination Toolkit - HHS *
• North Carolina's Health Care Workers Influenza Initiative
• Massachusetts' Employee Flu Immunization Campaign Kit
• APIC's Protect Your Patients. Protect Yourself. Program
• Rhode Island Immunizations Toolkit
• New York State Department of Health - Health Care Worker Immunization Toolkits
• Maryland Health Care Workers Influenza Initiative

* New for 2008-2009 season