Sunday, October 4, 2009
From the Director of Health and Wellnes
To all students, staff & faculty:

From what we are seeing in the Health and Wellness Center, the flu can start our with mild cold like-symptoms and then progress to other more severe symptoms with or without fever - or, it can hit you hard from the beginning starting with cough & fever!

Per the CDC and Texas Department of State Health Services:

People may have only one or two symptoms besides the fever, or they may have many. People can infect others with flu even before they show symptoms (24 to 48 hours), and they remain contagious for seven or more days after they become sick.

Signs & symptoms of flu:
- cough
- sore throat
- runny or stuffy nose
- body aches and or headache
- fever {chills, hot & cold - may include chills &/or cold sweats}
- exhaustion
- fatigue
- can include nausea, vomiting and or diarrhea

What to do if you have some of the above symptoms:
1. Notify Health & Wellness. Call 830-792-7279 (do not e-mail) to talk with a nurse to review your symptoms & to determine the need for medication. You do not have to go in to the Health & Wellness Center to be seen as most people with flu do not need medical treatment.  People at risk of complications from flu may be prescribed antiviral medication. Antibiotics are not effective against viruses & should not be requested.

Please follow the link below to the Schreiner University Health & Wellness Web site for additional information and complete details: http://students.schreiner.edu/health.

SCHREINER STUDENTS & EMPLOYEES:  You are strongly encouraged to sign up for Mountaineer Alert. It is an emergency-only text message and e-mail alert system that is free and designed to get you immediate information about campus emergency situations, such as a security issue or weather closure. Click here to sign up on Schreiner One.  After logging into Schreiner One, students can go to the Students tab and SU employees can go to the Employees tab to find the Mountaineer Alert sign up.

If an emergency closing or delay in opening Schreiner University is necessary, all lost work will be a paid absence for all full and 3/4 time employees, to be pro-rated accordingly. If an employee has scheduled benefit leave during the closing(s), and is not called in to work by the University, then the employee’s benefit leave will be used.

Employees should phone the main switchboard number at (830) 896-5411 or the Schreiner University public Web site at www.schreiner.edu (click on 'Emergency Notification'), where posted messages will notify employees and students of any official University closing or delay due to inclement weather. Unless a closing or delay is announced, employees and students will be expected to report for work and class at the usual time.

The decision to dismiss employees before the end of a workday due to hazardous weather conditions will be relayed verbally or by e-mail by a Vice President of the University. This lost time for employees will also be considered a paid absence for all full and 3/4 time employees who did not have scheduled benefit leave.

Local radio stations - The Ranch 92.3 (announces closings beginning at 6 a.m.) and KRVL 94.3 (announces closings at 7 a.m.) and the major San Antonio radio and television stations will also be notified of all closings. Employees should not rely on what the radio station announces, but should telephone the University’s main line to find out the status.