RN Jobs That Do Not Require Covid Vaccine

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Frontliner, 11 year veteran RN, in the Emergency Department. For the last year and a half, I have been exposed to so much Covid I feel I'm so blessed. I have had it splash in my face, eyes and mouth. I have taken antibody test and just can't seem to test pos for any antibodies ... which rules me out for an asymptomatic "Super Spreader!" If my employer mandates the Covid Vaccine I will be looking for RN jobs that do not require the vaccine. I'm employed in North Carolina but willing to travel for Jobs that do not require the Vaccine. It's my body and my choice. This thread is for links and discussion of RN jobs that do not require the Covid vaccine. Stay safe all! You could die tomorrow from a drunk driver. So don't fear death, I do not, and you should not either. Fear what happens after death. 

Specializes in Psych, Corrections, Med-Surg, Ambulatory.
On 10/17/2021 at 8:39 AM, TraumaRN52 said:

I'm no troll LOL. Graduated from UNC Chapel Hill actually. I about got kicked out for being too Conservative though LOL. I'm just a realist though. Vaccines that go to 50% efficacy after just a few months don't sound to good to me, but if you feel you want to take the vaccine, to each his own. 

I'm taking this post at face value and I don't see it as much different from questions about not having to work shifts, weekends, etc.  Usually it's students or new grads asking and the replies are usually that these things are a reality of nursing so options are limited.

Requiring certain vaccines in order to work is not without precedent.  I had to receive BCG vaccine in nursing school,  Hep B series somewhere along the way, chest x-rays in place of TST (until Quantiferon Gold was invented), yearly flu shot, etc.

I'm generally opposed to government mandates but private employers can do their own thing, especially when their business involves vulnerable people.  OP, I wish you luck finding a position that suits your requirements.

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Specializes in Emergency Department.
On 10/17/2021 at 6:41 PM, JKL33 said:

We've been calling it the ED/emergency department for a long time. It seems to be big health system preferred lingo. Everything done by our big, illustrious healthcare systems is way too important to refer to it using diminutive language such as "room."

 

On 10/20/2021 at 12:07 PM, klone said:

Nope, we call it an ED also in the US.

 

On 10/20/2021 at 3:28 PM, subee said:

Nope.  ER for me!  Never heard "ED" at work.  Eastern US.

 

19 hours ago, Orca said:

I have heard it in the west as well.

 

9 hours ago, HiddencatBSN said:

Non-healthcare workers might call it the ER in the US but everywhere I’ve worked has been an Emergency Department.

 

18 hours ago, JKL33 said:

The ER/ED issue is irrelevant; it isn't any kind of gotcha. Both are used in the U.S.

Folks can we move away from this. As JKL33 said, "it's irrelevant". As far as I was aware ALL Emergency Departments/Rooms in America are/were called an ER. Hence the name of the 1994 TV series starring Anthony Andrews, George Clooney and Julianna Margulies. 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108757/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

It has nothing to do with the topic at hand.

For information; in UK they were called Casualty (we still have a long running TV series called that), Accident  & Emergency (A&E) or more modern, Emergency Department (ED).

 

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Specializes in Hospice, LPN.

The whole thing about being splashed with COVID has a very erotic subtext, and I'm wondering what is actually being splashed and why the OP feels so blessed about it.

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16 minutes ago, PoodleBreath said:

The whole thing about being splashed with COVID has a very erotic subtext, and I'm wondering what is actually being splashed and why the OP feels so blessed about it.

I took it to mean that, despite having been exposed to it on more than one occasion, she has managed to avoid infection, thus making her feel “blessed.” 

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2 hours ago, PoodleBreath said:

The whole thing about being splashed with COVID has a very erotic subtext, and I'm wondering what is actually being splashed and why the OP feels so blessed about it.

I don’t think being splashed with an infectious disease has an erotic subtext. 

OP’s whole narrative sounded pretty silly. Being splashed repeatedly in the face with ”Covid”… What healthcare professional would actually phrase it like that?

I must have read and responded to dozens of these one-hit wonder posts and you learn to decipher them. The story about being splashed in the mouth and eyes on numerous occasions, was probably added to imply that Covid isn’t that easy to catch. (So why are we making a fuss about the vaccines?)

If anyone believes OP you’d have to find it credible that at his place of work, an ER, they first of all don’t have any or are not very good at using PPE since he managed to get ”Covid” in his mouth repeatedly and after staff had a known exposure ? ? ?, they never feel the need to and aren’t ever required to test to find out if they have an active infection. They just wait a few weeks or months and test for antibodies instead… Not to mention that all that Covid that OP got in his mouth might have contained other pathogens as well, if the patient had any other infectious diseases.

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Specializes in CRNA, Finally retired.
On 10/18/2021 at 10:18 PM, NurseSpeedy said:

Many Telehealth positions are starting to require it too. I had a patient that had to get the vaccine and she’s remote. Was given a deadline. Not sure if they feel the legislation will go through so start now or what but we have had many that were refusing before informing us they are now vaccinated. 

I don't think any employer wants their employees calling in sick with Covid and setting themselves up to paying for more sick time....even when they work remotely.

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Specializes in Specializes in L/D, newborn, GYN, LTC, Dialysis.

Good luck. Most business with a large number of employees are being compelled to mandate the vaccine.

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Specializes in Peds ED.
14 hours ago, GrumpyRN said:

 

 

 

 

 

Folks can we move away from this. As JKL33 said, "it's irrelevant". As far as I was aware ALL Emergency Departments/Rooms in America are/were called an ER. Hence the name of the 1994 TV series starring Anthony Andrews, George Clooney and Julianna Margulies. 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108757/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

It has nothing to do with the topic at hand.

For information; in UK they were called Casualty (we still have a long running TV series called that), Accident  & Emergency (A&E) or more modern, Emergency Department (ED).

 

Honestly the ED vs ER discussion is probably the most valuable part of this thread. The “topic at hand” was not, I also believe, started in good faith.

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Specializes in Peds ED.
14 hours ago, GrumpyRN said:

 

 

 

 

 

Folks can we move away from this. As JKL33 said, "it's irrelevant". As far as I was aware ALL Emergency Departments/Rooms in America are/were called an ER. Hence the name of the 1994 TV series starring Anthony Andrews, George Clooney and Julianna Margulies. 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108757/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

It has nothing to do with the topic at hand.

For information; in UK they were called Casualty (we still have a long running TV series called that), Accident  & Emergency (A&E) or more modern, Emergency Department (ED).

 

Also 1994 was a long time ago and as I said, the general public probably is still more likely to use ER so it makes sense that a nearly 30-year-old tv series aimed at the general public would use that term. 

11 hours ago, macawake said:

I don’t think being splashed with an infectious disease has an erotic subtext. 

OP’s whole narrative sounded pretty silly. Being splashed repeatedly in the face with ”Covid”… What healthcare professional would actually phrase it like that?

I must have read and responded to dozens of these one-hit wonder posts and you learn to decipher them. The story about being splashed in the mouth and eyes on numerous occasions, was probably added to imply that Covid isn’t that easy to catch. (So why are we making a fuss about the vaccines?)

If anyone believes OP you’d have to find it credible that at his place of work, an ER, they first of all don’t have any or are not very good at using PPE since he managed to get ”Covid” in his mouth repeatedly and after staff had a known exposure ? ? ?, they never feel the need to and aren’t ever required to test to find out if they have an active infection. They just wait a few weeks or months and test for antibodies instead… Not to mention that all that Covid that OP got in his mouth might have contained other pathogens as well, if the patient had any other infectious diseases.

Yeah if my job’s PPE situation were like OP’s supposed one I wouldn’t be waiting around for a reason to quit especially not with lucrative travel contracts everywhere.

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Specializes in Customer service.
On 10/17/2021 at 8:39 AM, TraumaRN52 said:

I'm no troll LOL. Graduated from UNC Chapel Hill actually. I about got kicked out for being too Conservative though LOL. I'm just a realist though. Vaccines that go to 50% efficacy after just a few months don't sound to good to me, but if you feel you want to take the vaccine, to each his own. 

You didn't read enough. Don't know if you're mocking antivaccines, or you're one of them. Dig more. 

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Specializes in Wound care; CMSRN.

Honestly this thread doesn't surprise me given the number of people in the medical field I've run into who are totally into woo woo. The self satisfied snark pretty much wraps that type up. 
I don't take my patients lives for granted. I just got tested for the fourth or fifth time and not because I enjoy the inside of my nose being subjected to whatever those swabs have on them that burns like hell.
Roughly 99% of my patients who present for monoclonal infusion so far have been vaccinated at least twice and they have to test positive for infection to qualify (that stuff runs 30k a pop) and have comorbidities and be less than 10 days out from exposure.
What's really funny is that there are a few people around that are genetically incapable of harboring this virus. It would be so ironic if this  OP, who is no doubt giving all the credit to magic sky fairies, was actually the lucky recipient of some wayward evolutionary largess.
I am so over hearing this garbage.

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Specializes in Adult Internal Medicine.
On 10/17/2021 at 11:39 AM, TraumaRN52 said:

I'm no troll LOL. Graduated from UNC Chapel Hill actually. I about got kicked out for being too Conservative though LOL. 

Wow what’d you do that is too conservative for those liberal academics?

It is also quite an accomplishment to both graduate from and be kicked out of the same university. 

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