Hey guys, I have a question for anyone else who is a fellow "non-vaccinator" or against mandatory vaccination. What did you do for nursing school, particularly clinical locations immunization requirements? After a lot of research, I've found that while many nurses can sign immunization waivers that are offered by some hospitals, etc., I haven't heard of a nursing student who has successfully avoided vaccination requirements associated with nursing school and clinical facilities.
I am well aware that vaccination is a very controversial subject in the medical field and many feel strongly on both sides of the issue. My intention is not to debate or discuss the merits of vaccinations, but to hear from other nurses and nursing students who challenged the vaccine requirements and how you went about it.
for one have your titers drawn for what is required most places will accept titers, 2 a lot of places will allow you to wear a mask instead of taking a flu shot. although a mask would be a hipaa violation. Thankfully the schools and clinical sites i will be using for my Rn will allow religious exemptions and a mask i am not so sure about the clinical sites for my bsn! Praying it all works out
If you refuse vaccines then maybe you should pray that you don't pass something life-threatening on to an infant with leukemia because of your inexcusable and willful ignorance instead.
There's no place in nursing for pseudoscience. Vaccines work and people like you are going to cause someone to die. Let that be on your conscience.
Thank you for the reply! Medical schools do not teach the truth about vaccines as Suzanne Humphries M.D. explains in her excellent 2013 book 'Dissolving Illusions'. Only those who research on their own find out and most of those people have been adversely effected already. Another well documented book that shows even more shocking facts, such things like the WHO allows up to 25,000 viruses to be present in the polio vaccines, is 'Fear of the Invisible' by investigative journalist Janine Roberts who also exposed diamond mines and her book was made into a movie called 'Blood Diamond'.
Thanks for the two sources that support your opinion. Here's 44 peer reviewed scientific studies supporting the factual safety and reliability of vaccines:
Vaccine Safety: Examine the Evidence - HealthyChildren.org
vaccines do not prevent diseases, do the research. proper hygiene and nutrition are what has helped with the decrease in diseases! Acctually a few of the vaccines can make you an asymptomatic carrier for up to 6 weeks meaning you can pass on the so called disease even though you do not show symptoms!
What a pack of lies.
Do tell, why do we still get epidemics of infectious diseases among unvaccinated persons in the USA? Those people just happen to be dirty and malnourished? Don't think so.
The fact that anyone spouting this nonsense would want to go into the medical/nursing field is a real head scratcher.
Being vaccinated (unless medically unable to do so) is literally a hiring criteria in almost every aspect of health care because you present a risk to patient safety. You are allowed to have whatever beliefs you want in regards to vaccinations, but when you get hired, you are agreeing to uphold the facilities beliefs in regards to vaccinations. If you're so against vaccinations, don't be part of a field which requires them.
vaccines do not prevent diseases, do the research. proper hygiene and nutrition are what has helped with the decrease in diseases!
Re: sanitation and hygiene actually responsible for plummeting rates of disease, let's look at a couple of them. When the first measles vaccine was introduced in 1963, rates of infection had been holding steady at around 400,000 cases a year. And while hygienic habits and sanitation didn't change much over the following decade, the rate of measles infections dropped precipitously following the introduction of the vaccine, with only around 25,000 cases by 1970. Another example is Hib disease. According to CDC data, the incidence rate for this malady plummeted from 20,000 in 1990 to around 1,500 in 1993, following the introduction of the vaccine.
Perhaps the best evidence that vaccines, and not hygiene and nutrition, are responsible for the sharp drop in disease and death rates is chickenpox. If hygiene and nutrition alone were enough to prevent infectious diseases, chickenpox rates would have dropped long before the introduction of the vaccine in the mid 1990's.Instead, the number of chickenpox cases in the US before the introduction of the vaccine was about 4 MILLION per year. By 2004, the disease incidence had dropped by 85%. Hygiene my butt.
Improvements in sanitation and nutrition do not explain the huge decrease in the incidence of these diseases. It's absurd to suggest this.
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Our Director of Nursing reviews all incoming applications. Anyone who declines the mandatory vaccinations is not accepted. They get a letter why. Our clinical partners do not budge, it is part of our clinical affiliation agreements.
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None of our clinical sites allow students to don a mask. All must be immunized to enter the program. Our two main hospitals will not hire any new nurse who refuses to be immunized.
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for one have your titers drawn for what is required most places will accept titers, 2 a lot of places will allow you to wear a mask instead of taking a flu shot. although a mask would be a hipaa violation. Thankfully the schools and clinical sites i will be using for my Rn will allow religious exemptions and a mask i am not so sure about the clinical sites for my bsn! Praying it all works out