lindy_

lindy_ specializes in public health, immunizations.

Latest Activity

1. Marketing Ideas

   lindy_ replied to Amanda.RN's topic in Entrepreneurs

   Ask your local Meals on Wheels agency if they can distribute your flyer with their meal delivery. I send our flu clinic dates and times this way and it works out well.

2. Standing orders for public health outbreak or emergency

   lindy_ replied to pshs_2000's topic in Public/Community

   Why not have your medical director sign the standing orders? Second suggestion would be to ask your State epidemiologist.

3. Nurse: 'I was fired for refusing flu shot'

   lindy_ replied to DesertRN2's topic in COVID

   Immunizations have been one of the biggest advancements in public health in the past century. I would encourage those not trusting of vaccines to educate yourself a little more...maybe sign up for a conference about immunizations. I attended one la...

4. Nurse: 'I was fired for refusing flu shot'

   lindy_ replied to DesertRN2's topic in COVID

   I hope you are not direct care nurses. Sure, if you are a QA nurse etc., you are not going to be a vector to compromised patients. But a recent study found that only 29% of healthcare staff with symptomatic influenza took time off from work. The 71...

5. Nurse: 'I was fired for refusing flu shot'

   lindy_ replied to DesertRN2's topic in COVID

   To those against mandatory flu shots... just curious if you are anti immunizations for children? What about TB testing requirements and measles vaccinations for healthcare providers? I WANT to be fully immunized for MYSELF as well as my patients. ...

6. Nurse: 'I was fired for refusing flu shot'

   lindy_ replied to DesertRN2's topic in COVID

   My workplace is looking at a mandatory flu shot policy for direct care workers for next season. We are in the process of looking at how to enforce it. We think that it is a moral and ethical issue. Our patients are all older and mostly homebound o...

7. Nurse: 'I was fired for refusing flu shot'

   lindy_ replied to DesertRN2's topic in COVID

   I just attended a conference on adult immunizations attended by close to 800 nurses. A physician from the Mayo Clinic spoke about mandatory HCW flu shots and made a convincing argument that it is an ethical and moral issue. He said that the only wa...

8. Foot care supplies

   lindy_ replied to islandnurse2007's topic in Entrepreneurs

   My agency has offered foot care through a grant that has come to an end. Looking at continuing the program, can anyone share with me what the typical charge would be for cutting toenails? Also, when does MCRE cover for this? I don't want to step o...

9. Foot care training

   lindy_ replied to kernow's topic in Entrepreneurs

   Thank you so much for your response Ciege. My agency was just awarded the public health nursing contract for our County. One piece of that contract is to continue a popular traveling foot care and toenail cutting clinic. The previous agency used b...

10. Foot care training

    lindy_ replied to kernow's topic in Entrepreneurs

    Can a bleach solution be used to properly clean instruments between clients?