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  1. Dec 11, '11 by
    Quote from myusername,rn
    i never get flu shots, i never get my kids flu shots...except for last year, i decided we all would get them. well, last year was the first year any of us had the flu and we all spent a week on tamiflu and out of school/work regardless. coincidence? maybe, but we won't be getting the shot again. get it if you want, but don't force it on me.
    since the flu vaccine uses a killed virus, which cannot replicate in the cells, then yes, it was a coincidence.
    blondy2061h, notpuurfctbtgdenghns, prmenrs, and 18 others like this.
  2. Dec 11, '11 by
    Quote from bklyn_rn
    yes, we are in flu season. and it seems you can't go anywhere without being bombarded/enticed to get the flu vaccine. a lot of times scare tactics are used also. they tried making it mandatory for nurses last season but that failed, thank goodness. then a friend went to a job interview, and a condition of employment was that she had to get the flu vaccine even though she did not want it.
    yet recently, a healthcare employer (i have declined to identify) went as far as to offer employees who get the flu vaccine (at work), entry into a raffle for a hot electronic gadget. i just think its too much. people already know about the flu vaccine and have made an educated decision about whether they want it or not. flu vaccines have become extremely commercialized, which leads me to conclude that a financial windfall is being made somewhere. just sayin...
    from some of the comments which are made about the flu vaccine, many of which are made by nurses, i have to disagree that everyone who refuses the flu vaccine has made an "educated decision" about it.
    blondy2061h, RN-Cardiac, x_factor, and 13 others like this.
  3. Dec 11, '11 by
    Quote from caroladybelle
    I am from the generation that you lined up in the school cafeteria, and everybody got a smallpox vaccination until you had the telltale scar. I have the vac card from the WHO, listing that it took times before I got the pock mark.

    I didn't realize until recently that they had stopped doing that, and that people had such objections. When we went overseas, we alays had to get vaccinated.
    They quit giving the smallpox vaccine because they had eradicated the disease in most of the world through use of the vaccine.
    blondy2061h, Stcroix, hiddencatRN, and 1 other like this.
  4. Dec 11, '11 by
    Quote from Horseshoe
    From some of the comments which are made about the flu vaccine, many of which are made by nurses, I have to disagree that everyone who refuses the flu vaccine has made an "educated decision" about it.
    Can you provide a study(s) that shows the effectiveness of the flu vaccine?
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  5. Dec 11, '11 by
    Quote from jimthorp
    Can you provide a study(s) that shows the effectiveness of the flu vaccine?

    I made no statements regarding the effectiveness of the flu vaccine, so why would I need to quote a study about it?
  6. Dec 11, '11 by
    Quote from Horseshoe
    I made no statements regarding the effectiveness of the flu vaccine, so why would I need to quote a study about it?
    You said not everyone who refuses the vaccine has made an educated decision. What then did you mean by that statement?
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  7. Dec 11, '11 by
    Quote from TheDreamJourney
    Tell me about it. I got accepted into the nursing program and for orientation last week one of the school's doctors came to speak to the students. She told us that we have to get the flu vaccine, which I am completely against. She said that we won't be allowed to start our clinicals if we don't get it. I have never gotten a flu vaccine in my life and now I have to get one according to this doctor. However, it says nothing about needing the flu vaccine in the paperwork that I received from the university that list the immunizations.....
    We had something similar happen to us. We had to turn in the 'proof' of vaccinations from out doctor to the school. That was before starting the program. Then over a year later, one of the local hospital was cracking down on staff and students having their vaccines, and they required all staff and students to have titers drawn for their vaccines. I happened have a low MMR titer, so I had to have the vaccine again ASAP before I started clinicals there. So despite the fact that the school said I was okay, I HAD to have this vaccine again if I was goign to start clinicals at this facility. Now I had no opposition to getting this vaccine, but I was not offered a choice and that is just the way it was.
  8. Dec 11, '11 by
    Quote from psu_213
    We had something similar happen to us. We had to turn in the 'proof' of vaccinations from out doctor to the school. That was before starting the program. Then over a year later, one of the local hospital was cracking down on staff and students having their vaccines, and they required all staff and students to have titers drawn for their vaccines. I happened have a low MMR titer, so I had to have the vaccine again ASAP before I started clinicals there. So despite the fact that the school said I was okay, I HAD to have this vaccine again if I was goign to start clinicals at this facility. Now I had no opposition to getting this vaccine, but I was not offered a choice and that is just the way it was.
    You did have a choice. To not participate in clinicals at their facility.
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  9. Dec 11, '11 by
    Quote from jimthorp
    You said not everyone who refuses the vaccine has made an educated decision. What then did you mean by that statement?
    I said that SOME of the statements made by people about the vaccine show that they are not educated about it. I did not clarify WHICH of those I was referring to, and I never said that anyone who rejects the vaccine is not making an educated decision.
  10. Dec 11, '11 by
    Quote from mindlor
    You did have a choice. To not participate in clinicals at their facility.
    That it certainly true...I was not trying to voice my opposition to what they did (I totally support it....I, for one, did not want to return from clinicals with a nice case of measles). I was just trying to illustrate a case in which the 'original' immunization check by the schools is changed later by the facility. Bravo to that facility for taking the lead in that. Although, the MMR vaccine real burns.