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The document from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health outlines key recommendations for controlling influenza and pneumococcal disease in long-term care facilities during the 2010-2011 season. It emphasizes the importance of annual vaccinations for residents and healthcare personnel, adherence to regulations regarding employee vaccination, and implementation of infection control measures. The document also provides guidance on surveillance, testing, reporting outbreaks, and the use of antiviral medications, highlighting the critical role of vaccination in protecting vulnerable populations.

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What can help prevent an influenza outbreak in long-term care facilities?

Additional Control Measures Avoid new admissions or transfers to wards with symptomatic residents, if possible. Limit visitation and exclude ill persons from visiting the facility via posted notices. Consider restricting visitation by children during community outbreaks of influenza.

Why are flu shots recommended for long term care staff members?

Healthcare personnel who get vaccinated may help to reduce: transmission of influenza, staff illness and absenteeism, and. influenza-related illness and death, especially among people at increased risk for severe influenza complications.

What precautions should be used if a patient has influenza?

Use STANDARD and DROPLET precautions for routine medical care of patients with confirmed or probable influenza, or influenza-like illness. Standard precautions include hand hygiene. When contact with body fluids is anticipated, a gown, gloves and eye protection should be worn.

What is the work protocol for flu?

In most cases, you should plan on returning to work only after 24 hours has passed with no fever (fever should be gone without the use of a fever-reducing medicine). If you are the supervisor of an employee who is exhibiting flu-like symptoms: Ask the employee to leave the workplace, i.e., go home and stay home.

What are the CDC guidelines for the flu in healthcare workers?

Stay at home if you are sick. CDC recommends that workers who have a fever and respiratory symptoms stay at home until 24 hours after their fever ends (100 degrees Fahrenheit [37.8 degrees Celsius] or lower), without the use of medication. Not everyone who has the flu will have a fever.

What is the flu policy in the workplace?

Employees should stay home or go home when they are sick with influenza symptoms. Staff with symptoms of influenza (fever and cough, sore throat, or runny nose) should stay home until they are fever-free for 24 hours without using fever-reducing medications. Employees should not come back to work with a fever.

How long are you contagious with the flu ing to the CDC?

When Are People with Flu Contagious? Influenza viruses can be detected in most infected persons beginning one day before symptoms develop and up to five to seven days after becoming sick. People with flu are most contagious during the first three days of their illness.

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