Long-Term Care Survey Alert
Before People Say 'Achoo'...Do This
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Stop flu and colds where they start. Tip: Print flyers or posters of the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention's "cover your cough" respiratory etiquette (www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/covercough.htm). The guidance advises that you:
A tissue in hand is worth more than boxes of them in the supply closets.
Providing a readily accessible supply of tissues for residents, their visitors and staff--and instructing them to use the tissues to cover their mouth and nose when they cough or sneeze--is the most effective way to prevent transmission of flu or colds, says James Marx, RN, CIC.
"You also need receptacles for the tissues," adds Marx, principal of BroadStreet Solutions, an infection control consulting firm in San Diego.
• cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze.
• if you don't have a tissue, cough or sneeze into your upper sleeve, not your hands.
• put your used tissue in the wastebasket.
• clean your hands after coughing or sneezing. Wash with soap and water or use an alcohol-based hand cleaner.
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