The Basics
At your doctor's office, local pharmacy, or health department
Flu vaccines are made with killed or weakened viruses that cannot give you the flu. • Sometimes the body’s immune response after vaccination can make some people feel a little ill, and that’s normal. For example, some kids may get a slight fever, but that’s their body responding and building antibodies to protect them from the flu.
Why the flu shot can't give you the flu
Getting the flu vaccine may help avoid overwhelming a system that may be stretched as it manages both flu and COVID-19
Why it's important to get the flu shot to prevent the flu
Questions that cannot be answered with a simple 'yes' or 'no', and instead require the respondent to elaborate on their points.
“How does that sound to you?”
“What do you think of this?”
“What are you willing to do?”
What are open-ended questions?
Finish the sentence: It's not too late...
What is To Vaccinate!
The appropriate flu shot for someone 65 years or older
High Dose
Many other germs cause symptoms similar to flu–which you might have caught. • Flu vaccine takes 2 weeks to work. You may have been infected with flu or another virus before developing immunity. • Flu vaccines are not 100% effective. However, even if you catch the flu, the illness will be much less severe.
Why I still got sick after I got vaccinated last year
While the flu shot does not protect you from COVID-19, If you catch the flu, it could weaken your body’s immune system and increase your risk of other infections, including COVID-19.
Also, if you become infected with COVID-19, you’ll have to wait until you’re well to get your flu vaccine (CDC, 2020). At that point, your body’s defenses are down, and you could be more vulnerable to the flu.
What is a reason to get the flu shot?
a collaborative communication method that includes asking patients open-ended questions and assessing their existing knowledge before sharing information
What is Ask Tell Ask?
Wear a mask
Wait six feet apart.
Wash your hands
What are the three W's to reduce the risk of COVID 19 and other respiratory illnesses like the flu?
The number of doses of flu vaccine recommended for children 6 months to 8 years old getting vaccinated for the first time for adequate protection from flu.
What are two doses four weeks apart
Flu is very serious and can cause pneumonia, hospitalization, and death. • Without the flu vaccine, you have zero added protection if you get exposed. It’s not worth the risk. Healthy children who were vaccinated lowered their chance of dying from flu by 65%. Adults: you’re much less likely (59% reduction) to need hospital or ICU care, (Thompson, 2018) and much less likely to die (52% -79% reduction) (Arriola, 2017)
In 2018-2019 the flu vaccine is believed to have prevented an estimated 4.4 million flu-associated illnesses, 2.3 million medical visits, 58,000 hospitalizations, and 3,500 deaths.
That’s pretty remarkable.
Why bother get a vaccine that's not effective?
The flu shot helps with heard immunity.
With a flu shot, people who are young, fit and healthy can help protect people in these high-risk groups from the flu through something called "herd immunity." The more people are vaccinated, the less likely it is for the contagious disease to be transmitted to others. Ultimately, it decreases how common flu cases are among the population (aka our “herd”).
"If you give someone a vaccine, it not only helps prevent that person from getting the flu, but it also helps prevent them from giving the flu to someone else,"
What is a reason to get a flu shot?
A MI strategy in which you express empathy through reflective listening.
What is naming the emotion?
a slogan first used in the United States during the 1918–20 influenza pandemic – later used in the Second World War by Ministries of Health in Commonwealth countries – to encourage good public hygiene to halt the spread of the common cold, influenza and other respiratory illnesses.
Coughs and sneezes spread diseases
October through May
What is flu season?
• Flu is sometimes confused with a cold. Flu viruses are not the same as a cold. When a person catches the flu, they often have a fever and body aches; most also have to miss days of work or school. When complications set in, flu can be life-threatening. While babies, pregnant women, those with certain health conditions, and seniors are at highest risk, even healthy children can die from flu. • More than 900,000 people were hospitalized and about 80,000 people died in the U.S. from flu in the 2017-18 season.
Why's the flu such a big deal?
A flu shot can save your life.
The flu can cause some serious complications that sometimes require hospitalization, such as dehydration, worsening of chronic illnesses, bacterial pneumonia, ear infections and sinus infections.
“Every year, about 200,000 people are hospitalized because of the flu,” says Dr. DeVeau.
In fact, influenza can lead to death in serious cases. During the 2017-2018 flu season, the CDC estimates 80,000 people died
Why is it important to get the flu shot?
statements by the client revealing consideration of, motivation for, commitment to, or movement toward adjusting behavior
What is change talk?
To help stop the spread of germs:
What is Cover your Cough
The length of time after you get the flu vaccine for your body’s immune system to create the necessary antibodies to fight off the flu so you’re protected against getting sick
2 weeks
Flu viruses mutate constantly and change from year to year. • Every year, healthy people who have never caught the flu before, suddenly get it. • Flu can spread easily at work, at school, and at home, while hanging with friends, or being out in the community.
Flu is sometimes confused with a cold. Flu viruses are not the same as a cold. When a person catches the flu, they often have a fever and body aches; most also have to miss days of work or school. When complications set in, flu can be life-threatening. While babies, pregnant women, those with certain health conditions, and seniors are at highest risk, even healthy children can die from flu. • More than 900,000 people were hospitalized and about 80,000 people died in the U.S. from flu in the 2017-18 season.
Why should an otherwise healthy person get a flu shot?
Getting the flu shot may help cut down on symptom confusion since the symptoms of flu and COVID have significant overlap.
Both viruses can cause illness that may range from mild to severe. According to the CDC, both flu and COVID-19 may cause the following symptoms:
It’s important to note, however, that loss of taste and smell is a symptom of COVID-19 that doesn’t occur with the flu.
What is a reason to get the flu shot?
Assess
Advise
Agree
Assist
Arrange
What are the 5As of Behavioral Change?
Tops and bottoms, tops and bottoms
in between in between
rub your hands together rub your hands together
rinse them clean rinse them clean
What is A song my kids learned in pre-school on how to wash their hands