Work Opportunities For Unvaccinated Nurses

[Guest219794]

I think that the market may create good paying work for unvaccinated nurses.

There are areas in this country with low vaccination rates resulting in high Covid hospitalization rates.   Couple that with increasing frustration and compassion fatigue experienced by nurses who understand that this disaster could be mitigated.  Staffing those Covid units is going to get harder and harder, jacking up already great travel pay.

Those areas will probably be the last to require nurses to get vaccinated.  Even if they want to, the diminishing supply of vaccinated nurses willing to continue in this fiasco may prevent them from requiring it.  Simple laws of supply and demand.

It would be a great selling point.  And, the unvaccinated nurses who survive the Covid units would have some strong anecdotal evidence to prove their point.

[Soloist, LPN]

This is assuming the nursing boards look favorable on granting licenses to vaccine dodgers and that you can find places that would take you. Our president is going to ultimately require all medical workers in any location taking Medicaid/Medicare. Then what would you do? 

Unless you have a medical or religious belief waver, you might as well either get vaccinated or find a new line of work. I really doubt those with a religious exemption are going to find it that easy to find new work. 

[toomuchbaloney]

There are lots of nursing jobs that involve zero patient contact.  The real challenge, as unvaccinated people drag out the pain and suffering of this pandemic, may be to find businesses which are sympathetic to that unvaccinated stance.  

[Kerivara]

Apologies if this is off-topic, but it is striking how accepted/commonplace this term 'unvaccinated nurses' has become.  The two words seem incongruent.  An oxymoronic coupling of words.

[Hannahbanana, BSN, MSN]

There is no religion whose doctrine includes vaccine refusal as an obligation. Even Christian Scientists seek regular medical care.

[guest1168940]

To kerivera there are lots of unvaccinated nurses and health care workers, see the other threads about vaccine mandates etc.  Also I saw Kaiser nurses protesting because they are going to start laying off unvaccinated nurses, I just don’t get not taking the vaccine. 

[KelRN215, BSN, RN]

In my state the options will be next to none. The Executive Office of Health and Human Services announced yesterday that any provider that bills Medicaid needs to ensure all of their staff are vaccinated.