[MCOH-EH] Quadravalent

Cindy Hansen Chansen at mhg.com
Fri Aug 15 13:54:44 PDT 2014


For us, the cost was the same or less for Quadravelent d/t our contract bulk purchase agreement.  We will be using Quadravalent this season.

Cindy Hansen, RN, MSN, CCM, CEAS
Memorial Hospital at Gulfport
Employee Health Manager
Ph:   228-867-4174
Fax:  228-867-4080


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   1. Re:  Skin Sensitivity Issues to Hospital Laundered Scrubs
      (Tami.Garrison at hcahealthcare.com)
   2. Re:  Skin Sensitivity Issues to Hospital Laundered Scrubs
      (Kris Arnold)
   3.  Quadrivalent flu vaccine usage (Epps, Nancy)
   4. Re:  Quadrivalent flu vaccine usage (Steivang, Kristen)
   5. Re:  Quadrivalent flu vaccine usage (Hudson, T. Warner)


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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 14:19:50 -0500
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To: <mcoh-eh at mylist.net>
Subject: Re: [MCOH-EH] Skin Sensitivity Issues to Hospital Laundered
        Scrubs
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Hi Nancy,
Our facility had some skin sensitivity issues. We had the laundry service change detergents and do a double rinse instead of a single rinse. So far so good.
Tami Garrison
Coordinator H2U Clinic
Employee & Occupational Health
Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center
208-535-4360 ~ Fax 208-535-4355

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From: MCOH-EH [mailto:mcoh-eh-bounces at mylist.net] On Behalf Of Epps, Nancy
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2014 12:52 PM
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Subject: [MCOH-EH] Skin Sensitivity Issues to Hospital Laundered Scrubs

Our facility is having issues with staff reporting skin sensitivity related to wearing hospital laundered scrubs (mandatory for our OR areas).
Some individual managers have allowed staff to launder their scrubs at home and carry them in a bag to their work area, to change into them once they arrive to their work area.  Our Infection Prevention department has issues with the bacterial burden that remains on items laundered at home and want to create a new process.

How do other facilities handle these staff issues?
What procedures does your staff use to launder their scrubs?
Do you allow them to launder them at home and carry them in to change once they arrive to their work area?
Does anyone have their Sterile Processing department ?sterilize? the home laundered scrubs?

Nancy Epps CMSRN, BSN, OCN
Clinician, Employee Health Services
Tampa General Hospital
Phone (813) 844-8003
Email: nepps at tgh.org<mailto:nepps at tgh.org>

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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 15:28:42 -0400
From: Kris Arnold <karnold at bu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [MCOH-EH] Skin Sensitivity Issues to Hospital Laundered
        Scrubs
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>From experience of something similar though not in the hospital
>setting,
this may be as simple an issue as inadequacy of the rinse cycle in removing traces of the chosen detergent.  Cataloguing the complaints and examining any employees complaining of skin irritation would help with leads as to possible, usually caustic, skin burns, most often in areas of close contact/friction.
In order to maintain the integrity of your infection control P&P, you might explore altering the cleaning process to look for solutions that meet both needs of infection control and personnel safety.

Kris Arnold, MD, MPH
ArLac Health Services, PC



On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Epps, Nancy <nepps at tgh.org> wrote:

>  Our facility is having issues with staff reporting skin sensitivity
> related to wearing hospital laundered scrubs (mandatory for our OR areas).
>
> Some individual managers have allowed staff to launder their scrubs at
> home and carry them in a bag to their work area, to change into them
> once they arrive to their work area.  Our Infection Prevention
> department has issues with the bacterial burden that remains on items
> laundered at home and want to create a new process.
>
>
>
> How do other facilities handle these staff issues?
>
> What procedures does your staff use to launder their scrubs?
>
> Do you allow them to launder them at home and carry them in to change
> once they arrive to their work area?
>
> Does anyone have their Sterile Processing department ?sterilize? the
> home laundered scrubs?
>
>
>
> Nancy Epps CMSRN, BSN, OCN
>
> Clinician, Employee Health Services
>
> Tampa General Hospital
>
> Phone (813) 844-8003
>
> Email: *nepps at tgh.org <nepps at tgh.org>*
>
>
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Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 19:49:37 +0000
From: "Epps, Nancy" <nepps at tgh.org>
To: "mcoh-eh at mylist.net" <mcoh-eh at mylist.net>
Subject: [MCOH-EH] Quadrivalent flu vaccine usage
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Has anyone switched to using all quadrivalent flu vaccine for their staff?

We have ordered trivalent for staff this year, but interested to see if other facilities feel the quadrivalent coverage is worth the cost?

Nancy Epps CMSRN, BSN, OCN
Clinician, Employee Health Services
Tampa General Hospital
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Email: nepps at tgh.org

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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 19:58:26 +0000
From: "Steivang, Kristen" <Kristen_Steivang at ssmhc.com>
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Subject: Re: [MCOH-EH] Quadrivalent flu vaccine usage
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Trivalent for injection ? we also will have some flumist (quadrivalent) for those who don?t like needles.  If they want quadrivalent, they can get if though personal HCP.

Kristen

Kristen L. Steivang, MSN, RN, ANP-BC, APNP Nurse Practitoner, Employee Health Services St. Mary?s Hospital
700 S. Park St.
Madison, WI 53715
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From: MCOH-EH [mailto:mcoh-eh-bounces at mylist.net] On Behalf Of Epps, Nancy
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To: mcoh-eh at mylist.net
Subject: [MCOH-EH] Quadrivalent flu vaccine usage

Has anyone switched to using all quadrivalent flu vaccine for their staff?

We have ordered trivalent for staff this year, but interested to see if other facilities feel the quadrivalent coverage is worth the cost?

Nancy Epps CMSRN, BSN, OCN
Clinician, Employee Health Services
Tampa General Hospital
Phone (813) 844-8003
Email: nepps at tgh.org<mailto:nepps at tgh.org>

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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 20:52:48 +0000
From: "Hudson, T. Warner" <TWHudson at mednet.ucla.edu>
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Subject: Re: [MCOH-EH] Quadrivalent flu vaccine usage
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We have not at UCLA? ordered about 12,000 doses of trivalent and around 100 of quadrivalent.

T. Warner Hudson, MD FACOEM, FAAFP
Medical Director, Occupational and Employee Health UCLA Health System and Campus Office 310.825.9146 Fax 310.206.4585 Pager 800.233.7231  ID 27132 E-mail twhudson at mednet.ucla.edu<mailto:twhudson at mednet.ucla.edu>
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From: MCOH-EH [mailto:mcoh-eh-bounces at mylist.net] On Behalf Of Epps, Nancy
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2014 12:50 PM
To: mcoh-eh at mylist.net
Subject: [MCOH-EH] Quadrivalent flu vaccine usage

Has anyone switched to using all quadrivalent flu vaccine for their staff?

We have ordered trivalent for staff this year, but interested to see if other facilities feel the quadrivalent coverage is worth the cost?

Nancy Epps CMSRN, BSN, OCN
Clinician, Employee Health Services
Tampa General Hospital
Phone (813) 844-8003
Email: nepps at tgh.org<mailto:nepps at tgh.org>

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