Vickie Peters, Deputy Director of An infection Prevention and Management at Cygnet Health Care, explains what the healthcare firm is doing to guard its weak service customers and workers from the affect of seasonal flu and the potential resurgence of COVID-19.
A marketing campaign to guard us all
At Cygnet Well being Care, we’ve simply launched a flu marketing campaign which is able to run from September 2022 to February 2023. We’re calling for flu vaccination volunteers to offer jabs at native companies to assist us make vaccinations accessible to as a lot of our workers, sufferers and residents as attainable.
Social contact has now returned to pre-pandemic ranges, which implies there’s prone to be a resurgence in influenza exercise in winter. The potential for co-circulation of influenza, COVID-19 and different respiratory viruses, might add considerably to pressures in well being and social care companies.
It’s, subsequently, no shock vaccination stays an essential precedence for us this autumn and winter to guard these we take care of and to cut back hospitalisations.
For many wholesome adults, the frequent signs of flu – fever, chills, headache, aches and pains within the joints and muscle tissue, and excessive tiredness – normally disappear after two to seven days and a full restoration is made.
However for some, together with the people we take care of, this sort of an infection can result in hospitalisation, everlasting incapacity and even demise. That’s the reason we take our annual vaccination rollout extraordinarily severely and encourage all frontline well being and social care staff to have each flu and COVID-19 booster jabs with a view to shield the people of their care.
Vaccination volunteers
To be a flu vaccination volunteer in our well being and social care companies, we’re asking for employees who’re registered nurses or docs, prepared to vaccinate colleagues of their service and different native amenities and who’ve updated intermediate life help coaching.
We may even be asking our volunteer workers to finish an internet academic module about flu.
Whereas pandemic restrictions have lengthy been lifted and we’ve returned to extra acquainted methods of life, we all know coronavirus continues to be current in our communities. That’s why all our colleagues at Cygnet Well being Care proceed to behave rigorously to guard one another and people of their care.
It’s critical we proceed to do all we are able to to stop the virus spreading and mitigate the chance of an infection. Our groups help a few of the most weak individuals in society and I’m immensely pleased with how everybody has labored laborious to guard all our residents and sufferers.
On this level, we’ll be encouraging all workers and repair customers to obtain the COVID-19 booster vaccine. Throughout a lot of our companies, we’ve wonderful neighborhood partnerships with native GP practices, a lot of which have already organized to attend our amenities and administer vaccines to service customers and workers.
My message to everyone is that reserving a vaccine, whether or not or not it’s for flu, a Covid-19 booster, or each, is straightforward and we encourage everybody to take action to maintain associates, household, colleagues and the broader neighborhood protected. Please book your appointment without delay.
