wearing a mask during flu season

[rpattee]

I work for a hospital in Kingman, Arizona. The hospital is making employees wear a mask

and have a green dot on our badge or get a flu vaccine. Wow, I feel I am being singled out,

as if the mask is not enough, not a green dot! LOL. The departments that have employees

who have received flu vaccines will not get a list. the departments who still have employees

that have not received the flu vaccines will receive a list to their managers. 5% to 20% each

year get the flu yearly. I don't feel like these numbers are alarming enough to go to these

lengths during flu season.

[turnforthenurse, MSN, NP]

This isn't anything new. Many facilities across the nation have been mandating this.

[Mr Sacdiff]

Not a big deal. I do not want the flu shot and happily wear a mask. This year is the exception as my nursing school requires the stinking shot! At my work we get a dot if we get the vaccine.

[mrsboots87]

I have never wanted the flu vax because I don't feel there is a high enough risk involved with me contracting the flu, and it only protects against a few of the projected strains of the season. However, my nursing school requires it becaue the clinical sites require it so I don't really care. I know the reasoning is not necessarily because of the small percentage of students who can become infected, its about the patients with lowered immunity ad such we will come into cntact with that can get sick from us if we become infected. The 5-20% of people who become infected but probably have good enough health to fight it off don't matter as much as the immunodefficient patient who could possibly die from contracting it.

[VampyrSlayer, CNA]

I'm not a nurse (applying to school) but I work with food at the hospital. Flu shot was mandatory for me. I usually get it every year regardless because I've gotten the flu without it and never with it!