Why do hospitals promote Flu shots so bad?

[Life22feb]

I was hired through an agency to work as a nurse, giving flu shots during the flu season at a very well known hospital. Hospital administration is so eager for me to give as many flu shots as I can to patients. Does the hospital really care about patients not getting the flu or is there something else more?

[dirtyhippiegirl, BSN, RN]

Even if that is true, so what? It's one area where a "kickback" would be good. Forestalling a *preventable* disease for millions of patients and staff alike, would be, to me, a great reason to get a "kickback". They would actually being doing the community some good for that money.

Do you have evidence you can present here, that proves they are getting such "one trillion dollar" kickbacks? I for one, would like to know the actual statistics and figures. And I am naturally just curious.

I have a feeling if we could channel those so horrendously affected in 1918 by the great epidemic, they would love to tell us how preventing such widespread mayhem can't be anything but a good thing. None of us here today can speak to the abject horror such an event wrought on lives; we were not there. I can't even.

I thought my use of "trillion" would make the sarcasm really, really, really obvious because trillion is an absurdly large number and critical reading/thinking should extend to everything that you read.

[dirtyhippiegirl, BSN, RN]

Actually, wait, here is the proof!

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I don't know how to properly cite this. Could someone write it up in APA format?

[SmilingBluEyes]

That is awesome, Hippy girl.

[dirtyhippiegirl, BSN, RN]

That is awesome, Hippy girl.

My husband wrote it, I cannot claim credit.