screening staff for flu before work????

They do encouraging people with flu-like s/s to stay home but....if you miss too many days, say 5 in a 6 month period, you are given reprimand. There is no change in that policy to take into account the fact that administration has mandated you off d/t flu-like s/s. Nor is there a policy change to reflect immunity from reprimand if you are sent home.

We are a rural hospital and often run minimum staffing, but if the majority of RN's are out I am worried there will be no one to care for patients-especially with management running around taking random temps on staff. I mean, who do they expect to replace these nurses with...surely not themselves

Also, I feel they are overstepping their bounds by doing a health screening on staff to judge in their RN opinion (not a physician or mid-level) that someone is unfit to work. This seems illegal and an invasion of privacy. Do they plan on checking random temps on visitors--NO. Are there policies in place now to limit visitors, children.NO!
I think they are taking a 's approach to this and opening themselves up to a whole lot of trouble.

we'll use this one for management--

Agreed. After reading a boat load of literature regarding this flu virus, I don't want it anywhere near me--my opinion and I'm sticking to it. I wonder how much the phamaceutical companies are making off the government purchased H1N1 vaccines--glad our gov isn't too big business like 'W'