title: Developing a "best practice" influenza vaccination program for health care workers--an evidence-based, leadership-modeled program.
abstract: Transmission of influenza among health care workers is a well-documented problem. Influenza vaccination is an effective intervention to reduce the influenza burden; however, vaccination rates remain low among health care workers. The challenge for occupational health nurses is how to increase health care workers' vaccination rates. This article describes the key components of a successful influenza program at a large integrated health care system. A multidisciplinary team developed and implemented an evidence-based, leadership-modeled program that led to improvement in health care workers' vaccination rates from 66% to 77% in year one and from 77% to 84% in year two.
authors.affiliation: Occupational Health Services, Cook Children's Health Care System, Fort Worth, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Joyce
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hood
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking; D055318:Evidence-Based Nursing; D006282:Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D007252:Influenza Vaccines / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D007857:Leadership; D032541:Mass Vaccination / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D009785:Occupational Health Nursing / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D016730:Program Development
chemical_list: D007252:Influenza Vaccines