Nurse: 'I was fired for refusing flu shot'

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I refused the flu shot and I intend to keep doing so, my parents never vaccinated my brother or me and we rarely get sick (knock on wood). Maybe we have just been lucky. I haven't gotten the flu or really sick at all in the time I've been working in the hospital. I agree with others rights that say I get to decide what goes in my body just as our patients do. What if patients share rooms with other patients that have not had the flu shot? We do our best to keep patients in private rooms if they are in a condition of a heavily depleted immune system and if the patient or family has an issue I wouldn't mind if they asked if I had the shot. I would gladly tell them no and they have every right to request a caregiver that had received it. I wouldn't be offended.

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I refused the flu shot and I intend to keep doing so, my parents never vaccinated my brother or me and we rarely get sick (knock on wood). Maybe we have just been lucky.

Did your parents refuse to have you vaccinated against any diseases at all? How did you get around that in nursing school? My best friend was a Christian Scientist, and she got a religious waiver for all vaccines in public school from elementary to high school. But going to college is not a right; nursing school is completely optional and there was NO religious waiver for vaccines because it was a requirement of the clinical facilities.

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I think everyone should get the flu shot. I hate it when parents come in and are surprised their kid has the flu when they openly admit they do not believe in vaccinations. Then they seem shocked that the kid could get the flu from other kids in their kindergarten class.

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