22,000 Nurses Refuse *Mandatory* Vaccinations

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Today, there is an article posted on how 22,000 nurses are taking a stand against mandatory vaccination. These nurses are willing to lose their jobs to stand up for their Pro-choice rights. I have included the link below so you can read the article for yourself. Learn more about NAMV (Nurses Against Mandatory Vaccines)

NAMV was founded when mandatory vaccines were introduced in the workplace, and though it is not pro-vaccine OR anti-vaccine, it is certainly pro-CHOICE. NAMV members believe that all people should have the right to choose and refuse medical treatment, including nurses and healthcare workers.

22,000 Nurses Refuse *Mandatory* Vaccinations | Natural Society

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Where I work, the flu season has now picked up and patients with resp failure due to flu+ are admitted.

My facility mandates the flu vaccine, which is good because we also serve a very vulnerable population - some of them can not have the flu shot for medical reasons.

I have gotten the flu shot for more than 20 years, my children get the flu shot each year as well. None of us has gotten sick from the shot in all those years.

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Where I work, the flu season has now picked up and patients with resp failure due to flu+ are admitted.

My facility mandates the flu vaccine, which is good because we also serve a very vulnerable population - some of them can not have the flu shot for medical reasons.

I have gotten the flu shot for more than 20 years, my children get the flu shot each year as well. None of us has gotten sick from the shot in all those years.

Yep - this is good, because then 20% of you all are protected.

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Yep - this is good, because then 20% of you all are protected.

More like 59%.

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Specializes in L&D, Trauma, Ortho, Med/Surg.

Interesting! Honestly, I hadn't seen this seasons projected rates yet. It is a crap-shoot every year really. In my humble, unprofessional, conspiracy theorist, paranoid, opinion (this is facetious. I'm not actually humble, unprofessional, a conspiracy theorist, or paranoid). ;) I'm not against flu shot. I am against forceful vaccination of/for anything. I am for good humor, even in wildly serious debates concerning everything under the sun.

But still, because ya know...science....

Vaccines for preventing influenza in healthy adults. - PubMed - NCBI

Vaccines for preventing influenza in healthy children. - PubMed - NCBI

Vaccines for preventing influenza in the elderly. - PubMed - NCBI

Vaccines for preventing influenza in healthy children. - PubMed - NCBI

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0010949/

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I had the flu once.. thought I was gonna die.

I am no longer in the hospital setting, but the corporation I work for still mandates the vaccine.

I am first to queue up with my sleeve rolled up.. plus I don't have to pay for it.:whistling:

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I had the flu once.. thought I was gonna die.

I am no longer in the hospital setting, but the corporation I work for still mandates the vaccine.

I am first to queue up with my sleeve rolled up.. plus I don't have to pay for it.:whistling:

I not only thought I was...I wanted to. I've never been so sick in my entire life.

Influenza doesn't usually cause mild symptoms. I wish I had a dollar for every unvaccinated person who had the sniffles and informed me they had the flu and "it's not that big of a deal."

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I not only thought I was...I wanted to. I've never been so sick in my entire life.

Influenza doesn't usually cause mild symptoms. I wish I had a dollar for every unvaccinated person who had the sniffles and informed me they had the flu and "it's not that big of a deal."

Exactly. The "flu" can be life threatening in a healthy person. My dumass healthy son just recovered from 10 days on his back with the flu.

He is going to be first in line in October.. for his first ever flu vaccination.

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Where I work, the flu season has now picked up and patients with resp failure due to flu+ are admitted.

Same here. In fact, we just had a post-cardiac surgery patient die because he contracted the flu shortly after surgery (speculation is that he picked it up before discharge from another flu+ patient on the post-surgical unit [who never should have been on that unit]). Was doing great up until a week post-discharge, came back in, ended up in ICU with respiratory failure that progressed to respiratory arrest, on pretty much every vasopressor maxed out, progressed to ECMO, but it was too late- every organ system started shutting down.

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Ever since I discovered VITAMIN D3 and added it to my vitamin C I have never had the flu again. And I have been around a lot of sick People. I normally take 4 grams of C a day when not sick, and in the past found it was a great antihistamine so would take as much as 20 grams when sick. Later I was trying 10,000IU of vitamin D3 in addition, and one SNF I was at had something awful come through, it was like bronchitis, we were quarantined for 2 weeks, everyone was sick and came to work sick because there simply was no one left to come to work. I was on my 10,000 IU of D and 4 grms of C and was the only one that didn't get it. Mind you, out of 70 beds, all full, we lost 9 pts, in 10 years of working in hospitals, I had never seen that many people die from the same bug, and largely it was because they refused to drink. This bug caused loss of appetite and lack of thirst and they just wouldn't take fluids. But I didn't even have to increase my vitamin C because the D was covering it. Not even a sniffle. Now I believe I was exposed but I just didn't have to suffer. I am sure I have antibodies from that exposure, but I didn't have to suffer.

Last year I was working nocs and got a little headache, I don;t get those very often, it is either dehydration (hydrating didn't make it leave) so I figured "flu hint" so I took 20,000 IU of D3 and 4 grams of C right there at the begining of work and it went away never to bother me again. It's A LOT easier than TAKING ALUMINUM OR MERCURY INTO YOUR BODY (from shots) AND HAVING LONG TERM CONSEQUENCES FROM THAT! Again I must repeat, I retook all my childhood vaccines to get into nursing school and that caused 13 years of chronic diarrhea, and many maladies that grew from that. I only just stopped it with trimethylglycine and MSM. Both OTC nutrients and cheap.

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Same here. In fact, we just had a post-cardiac surgery patient die because he contracted the flu shortly after surgery (speculation is that he picked it up before discharge from another flu+ patient on the post-surgical unit [who never should have been on that unit]). Was doing great up until a week post-discharge, came back in, ended up in ICU with respiratory failure that progressed to respiratory arrest, on pretty much every vasopressor maxed out, progressed to ECMO, but it was too late- every organ system started shutting down.

Horrific scenario!"speculation is that he picked it up before discharge from another flu+ patient on the post-surgical unit [who never should have been on that unit])."

What is the mortality and morbidity committee's evaluation?

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What is the mortality and morbidity committee's evaluation?

I personally don't know that. In fact, it's so recent that I don't even know if it's been discussed by the committee.

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Ever since I discovered VITAMIN D3 and added it to my vitamin C I have never had the flu again. And I have been around a lot of sick People. I normally take 4 grams of C a day when not sick, and in the past found it was a great antihistamine so would take as much as 20 grams when sick. Later I was trying 10,000IU of vitamin D3 in addition, and one SNF I was at had something awful come through, it was like bronchitis, we were quarantined for 2 weeks, everyone was sick and came to work sick because there simply was no one left to come to work. I was on my 10,000 IU of D and 4 grms of C and was the only one that didn't get it. Mind you, out of 70 beds, all full, we lost 9 pts, in 10 years of working in hospitals, I had never seen that many people die from the same bug, and largely it was because they refused to drink. This bug caused loss of appetite and lack of thirst and they just wouldn't take fluids. But I didn't even have to increase my vitamin C because the D was covering it. Not even a sniffle. Now I believe I was exposed but I just didn't have to suffer. I am sure I have antibodies from that exposure, but I didn't have to suffer.

Last year I was working nocs and got a little headache, I don;t get those very often, it is either dehydration (hydrating didn't make it leave) so I figured "flu hint" so I took 20,000 IU of D3 and 4 grams of C right there at the begining of work and it went away never to bother me again. It's A LOT easier than TAKING ALUMINUM OR MERCURY INTO YOUR BODY (from shots) AND HAVING LONG TERM CONSEQUENCES FROM THAT! Again I must repeat, I retook all my childhood vaccines to get into nursing school and that caused 13 years of chronic diarrhea, and many maladies that grew from that. I only just stopped it with trimethylglycine and MSM. Both OTC nutrients and cheap.

I take vitamin B/C complex, vitamin D-and STILL got the flu this year-specifically Influenza A; the saving grace of not feeling like I was going to die and not be sick for weeks vs 7 days was my free employer-sponsored flu shot. :cool:

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