Education Services
A Resource Guide for Managing Pandemic Influenza
How will pandemic influenza affect your business, your clients and your staff? Are you ready?
Influenza pandemic occurs when:
- New influenza virus strain emerges
- People not immune
- Easily spread
- Causes high number of deaths
What is predicted?
- Economic and social disruption
- Business and Government services disrupted
- Schools and day services close
- Transport services affected
- Going to work will be difficult
How do you prepare?
- Clients and their families need information so they can be prepared
- Staff will need to know how to recognise symptoms of influenza, what action to take and appropriate infection control practices
- Services will need enough food, fluids, household items and medicines to last a week.
What are the benefits of the Resource?
- Establish this Folder as part of your risk management for Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Plan
- Add your organisation’s Infection Control, Pandemic and Disaster Response Policies
- Having at hand the most current evidence-based research driven resource for effective management of a Pandemic Influenza event
- Pandemic Influenza Brochures for:
- Employers: distribute to all Managers
- Employees: distribute to all Employees who have contact with your Clients
- Home: distribute to all your Clients
Developed By Michelle Courts, Clinical Nurse Consultant, Disability Service, RDNS
Email:
Michelle.Courts@rdns.org.au