Flu Shots: Key For Surviving The Winter
By: Monica Thorpe
Issue date: 11/14/07 Section: Student Life
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As the flu season comes upon us have you gotten your flu shot?
The flu or influenza is the most common respiratory
illness that causes mild to severe illness and eventually death. According to the Center for Disease Control, the best way to prevent the flu is by getting a flu vaccination each year.
Still, is CAU's Student Health Center ready for the flow of hundreds of kids with a runny nose and sore throats? Mrs. Karla Scipio, RN and nurse health educator of the student health services, says, "Yes."
Though the student health center doesn't physically give students flu shots, they will direct students to where they can receive the shot at a discount price. To prepare and educate students the student health center held the first annual "Clean Hands Week" on Oct. 22-26, wherestudents were taught ways to prevent the flu as well as the spread of germs.
"Students have to pay attention to how germs are transferred and transmitted and a lot of times I observe all the students who come in sick don't know how to cough properly, don't know when and how to wash their hands properly and all of this helps to decrease the amount of students that will get sick," Scipio stated.
On a typical day the health center treats 60 students and out of those 40 students have flu like symptoms. Scipio recommends that all students at CAU come in and educate themselves
on the prevention of germs and also the flu.
"Judging from the past we've had a lot of sick students
especially during the flu season. So what we want to do this year is offer some preventive
measures to prepare the students and staff and faculty."
In doing so, the student health centers organization, the H-Peers, went around to various classes on Oct. 25, which was in fact clean hands day and taught students
how and when to wash their hands properly as well as when to use hand sanitizer.
H-Peers are a group of students
who are in the words of Scipio, "have a heart to serve to get the work done." Besides
"Clean Hands Week," H-Peers have also held other events such as seminars dealing with Breast Cancer and Men's Health. If interested in becoming an H-Peer or in need of community service( especially freshmen),
please visit the student health center and ask for an application.
The flu or influenza is the most common respiratory
illness that causes mild to severe illness and eventually death. According to the Center for Disease Control, the best way to prevent the flu is by getting a flu vaccination each year.
Still, is CAU's Student Health Center ready for the flow of hundreds of kids with a runny nose and sore throats? Mrs. Karla Scipio, RN and nurse health educator of the student health services, says, "Yes."
Though the student health center doesn't physically give students flu shots, they will direct students to where they can receive the shot at a discount price. To prepare and educate students the student health center held the first annual "Clean Hands Week" on Oct. 22-26, wherestudents were taught ways to prevent the flu as well as the spread of germs.
"Students have to pay attention to how germs are transferred and transmitted and a lot of times I observe all the students who come in sick don't know how to cough properly, don't know when and how to wash their hands properly and all of this helps to decrease the amount of students that will get sick," Scipio stated.
On a typical day the health center treats 60 students and out of those 40 students have flu like symptoms. Scipio recommends that all students at CAU come in and educate themselves
on the prevention of germs and also the flu.
"Judging from the past we've had a lot of sick students
especially during the flu season. So what we want to do this year is offer some preventive
measures to prepare the students and staff and faculty."
In doing so, the student health centers organization, the H-Peers, went around to various classes on Oct. 25, which was in fact clean hands day and taught students
how and when to wash their hands properly as well as when to use hand sanitizer.
H-Peers are a group of students
who are in the words of Scipio, "have a heart to serve to get the work done." Besides
"Clean Hands Week," H-Peers have also held other events such as seminars dealing with Breast Cancer and Men's Health. If interested in becoming an H-Peer or in need of community service( especially freshmen),
please visit the student health center and ask for an application.
