Forced Flu Shots

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Georgetown Hospital in DC has forced flu shots. I am a travel nurse and have went through signing my contract and submitting my paperwork just to find out that if I don't have a flu shot I can't go to the facility. Normally I would say- ok, no big deal I'll get the shot but, I am allergic to the shot and eggs. Despite that info and the offer to provide the facility a note from my doctor they continue to refuse to allow me to come to the facility. Is this not discrimination? How can they do this and get away with it? Please help!

Specializes in Tele, ICU, ER.

Both healthsystems I work in have implemented this flu or mask this year. I got the shot simply because I've never had a problem with it in the past.... BUT.. I do have a problem when this is directed only at nurses, not docs, not techs, etc.

ANYONE who comes in contact with a patient should have the same rule. Now administration, heh, they don't have to worry, do they?

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Specializes in Utilization Management; Case Management.

Well...3 weeks in with my little yellow mask, lol. So I think thats a total of 9 times, 108 hours roughly. I've gotten the "Didn't get your flu shot?" question all the time. And what I find funny is that 90% of the personel that got the shot say "I just didn't want to wear the mask" I've never heard any of the "evidence based" reason actually...I even hear "This stupid shot didn't keep me from getting this stupid bug" lol! To each his own, but I'm fine with my 3 days a week fashion statement til March. No biggy at all :D

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Specializes in Cardiac, Derm, OB.
How about flumist. They give to people with yourvkind of allergies in the military...

The flumist is a live virus vaccine which increases risk.

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Specializes in ICU/Burn ICU/MSICU/NeuroICU.
Well...3 weeks in with my little yellow mask, lol. So I think thats a total of 9 times, 108 hours roughly. I've gotten the "Didn't get your flu shot?" question all the time. And what I find funny is that 90% of the personel that got the shot say "I just didn't want to wear the mask" I've never heard any of the "evidence based" reason actually...I even hear "This stupid shot didn't keep me from getting this stupid bug" lol! To each his own, but I'm fine with my 3 days a week fashion statement til March. No biggy at all :D

Your Bio says, just clinical's so far...so are you a Registered Nurse or not?:confused:

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Specializes in ICU/Burn ICU/MSICU/NeuroICU.

Our NC based facility required all pt. care givers to be vaccinated last year. At first it was or else...later eased off to say N95 or Vacc. I saw Doc's and Nurses wearing N95's. And we did make all pt. families use a mask, but not N95 as I recall.

While at first I think many of us were personally affronted for the MGMT giving us the old: Or else...statement, in time most got vaccinated. I heard more stupidity than I had in a long time, and it was just misplaced ego's mostly.

To be certain anything foreign you put into your body can have an adverse effect and even cause death, but truth is vaccines haved saved a bunch of lives over time. And unlike the poster above, I harbor no great illusions of us ever doing away with vaccination. Vectors are almost a perfect organism, and many among us can admire their ability to mutate, spread and host, even while despising their ubiquity and ravages.

I did get vaccinated last year for the first time in about 25 years. Once I went to the CDC and read their data-sheets, and followed links to States, such as Virginia that were ramping up for the BIG ONE...I realized we could all be in big trouble. The CDC says now the worst is over...but in 1918 it didn't happen like that. It came back...so that was another reason I chose to get vaccinated. Glad it became a non-pandemic!

Cheers,

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