STRENGTHS There were many strengths about this article, that included methods, rates, graphs, and solutions. One of the strengths for increasing this vaccination rate among health care workers is by instituting the first mandatory influence program for all health care workers. In 2004, this medical center was the first to make the annual influenza vaccination a “fitness-for-duty” requirement for every employee. In this setting, all health workers are educated on influenza and the risks if they are not vaccinated. This vaccination was delivered in many ways which include peer vaccinations, a flu cart available at all times for use by hospital staff, and a mobile flue cart that travels around the hospital. The employees providing this vaccination
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Although this study provides many other options. Vaccination could get quite expensive, but most of this health care workers would be able to get this vaccination for free in their clinics and hospitals. The other solutions would be to take a document from their employee in which they would get reimbursed for the cost. When talking about needles, sometimes accommodations have to be made but this is a problem why a lot of people are not getting vaccinated there are other options. According to the article, there is a nasal vaccine that is also offered for those employees with fear of needles. Another problem was that sometimes people will say that they do not get vaccinate because they are allergic to influenza shots, allergic reactions upon the flu shot are very rare and in most cases they are able to tolerate the vaccination. If any health worker had a history of any vaccine allergy they could also be offered a skin test and vaccination at no cost. In other words, many of this health care workers didn’t really have a choice but to get vaccinated. These solutions were strengths to the study because the more employees that were informed about this solution, the number of flu vaccination would increase throughout the …show more content…
A group of medical staff and managers were gathering data on the barriers and educational shortages on receiving information regarding influenza. This campaign would allow people to have a website with links to outside sources of information in influenza. These online modules were fascinating in a way that any individual would be able to have online meetings with staff and be able to answer any questions. The different ways in which staff promised to this campaign is that in this modules they organized games such as “fun” flu quizzes that include prizes, a contest which include an additional party with food and a football game and personal videos on influenza by staff personal stories. This campaign was very successful that approximately 20% of employees were vaccinated after considering this sources. This method that the author provides can be effective to inform people that are not aware of how dangerous influenza(flu) is. Therefore, he provides things that will be more fun and an interest way that people will be informed on influenza. These games do manipulate on the interested one has when reading something. We don’t usually see many people read many brochures or articles about influenza, so these methods on converting this information into games according to out results, are very
Although this study provides many other options. Vaccination could get quite expensive, but most of this health care workers would be able to get this vaccination for free in their clinics and hospitals. The other solutions would be to take a document from their employee in which they would get reimbursed for the cost. When talking about needles, sometimes accommodations have to be made but this is a problem why a lot of people are not getting vaccinated there are other options. According to the article, there is a nasal vaccine that is also offered for those employees with fear of needles. Another problem was that sometimes people will say that they do not get vaccinate because they are allergic to influenza shots, allergic reactions upon the flu shot are very rare and in most cases they are able to tolerate the vaccination. If any health worker had a history of any vaccine allergy they could also be offered a skin test and vaccination at no cost. In other words, many of this health care workers didn’t really have a choice but to get vaccinated. These solutions were strengths to the study because the more employees that were informed about this solution, the number of flu vaccination would increase throughout the …show more content…
A group of medical staff and managers were gathering data on the barriers and educational shortages on receiving information regarding influenza. This campaign would allow people to have a website with links to outside sources of information in influenza. These online modules were fascinating in a way that any individual would be able to have online meetings with staff and be able to answer any questions. The different ways in which staff promised to this campaign is that in this modules they organized games such as “fun” flu quizzes that include prizes, a contest which include an additional party with food and a football game and personal videos on influenza by staff personal stories. This campaign was very successful that approximately 20% of employees were vaccinated after considering this sources. This method that the author provides can be effective to inform people that are not aware of how dangerous influenza(flu) is. Therefore, he provides things that will be more fun and an interest way that people will be informed on influenza. These games do manipulate on the interested one has when reading something. We don’t usually see many people read many brochures or articles about influenza, so these methods on converting this information into games according to out results, are very