Stressed out Illinois nurse

[mucifer]

I'm kinda freaking out a bit right now. Where I work there are 4 of us nurses. One is an assistant manager. Three of us are in the field visiting patients in their home.

I am the only one of the 3 who are vaccinated. It's really weird. It's only the nurses who don't believe in the vaccines.

The mandate came yesterday from Governor Pritzker. Everyone has to have their first vaccine by September 5th.

We all love our jobs. One nurse is on vacation. One nurse took the day off. One nurse worked but gave me a hundred reasons why she shouldn't have to take the vaccine and why the statistics we have are wrong.

Two of the three are really good people. I am serious. They are scared and feel threatened. They are truly worried about themselves and their kids.

Yesterday I was angry. Today I'm really sad.

They all could quit and get jobs in other states. It's really sad and so scary.

[MLAA]

1. Tell them to talk to their doctor.

Enough of reading Facebook and being fearful. If they have t discussed with their primary doctor they are being stupid not fearful in my opinion.

I didn’t mean to be dismissive of your concerns, just see those nurses as being stupid. If a healthcare provider does not ask their doctor they are not fit to provide healthcare to anyone in my opinion. 💖

[leftieNanner]

2. Our county in Southern Oregon has been absolutely slammed with Covid

A perfect storm of right wing idiots and new age naturopath type folks - neither will get the vaccine.

One of our local hospitals had 61 employees test positive for the disease - MOSTLY UNVACCINATED!!!

So the hospital is full of very sick people and I had my hysterectomy (etc) cancelled indefinitely because it's considered elective. Believe me, it's not.

I do not understand any of this.

Good for you mucifer. Stay well.

[moonscape]

10. A friend's friend collapsed from a brain aneurysm

and is in the hosp. My friend said the hosp are full because her county is one of the worst in the country. She’s in Jackson County so either yours or close. So tragic

[LisaL]

3. They go to people's homes and they are un-vaxxed?

What in the world are they scared of? They should stop getting their "knowledge" off social media.

[rurallib]

6. clients should be advised of this up front

I am sure most clients would assume that they are vaxxed because they are nurses and working I under someone who must mandate vaxxing.

[brush]

11. The people in the homes they go to should be afraid of them.

Unvaxxed and not knowing if they've contracted the virus and going into peoples' homes?

How idiotic can they get?

Isn't the motto of healthcare workers "first, do no harm"?

[Skittles]

4. I do not understand how someone can be a nurse and not believe in vaccines

that is crazy

[LisaL]

5. Add to that they are scared of vaccines but not of covid?

Which is much more likely to kill them?

[mucifer]

7. She had covid early on. There is a new study from Israel stating

natural immunity from having the covid before the variants came works better than the vaccine.

The results are good news for patients who already successfully battled Covid-19, but show the challenge of relying exclusively on immunizations to move past the pandemic. People given both doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine were almost six-fold more likely to contract a delta infection and seven-fold more likely to have symptomatic disease than those who recovered.

“This analysis demonstrated that natural immunity affords longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization due to the delta variant,” the researchers said.

But, it's not yet peer reviewed:

The data was posted as a preprint article on medRxiv, and hasn’t yet been reviewed by other researchers.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-27/previous-covid-prevents-delta-infection-better-than-pfizer-shot

[LisaL]

9. This study contradicts multiple other studies.

We also know delta can re-infect those who had covid before.

[Maru Kitteh]

8. What are these "really good people" telling vulnerable, vaccine-hesitant clients?

You must know in your heart they are steering people away from the vaccine, leaving them even more vulnerable and at risk. I've done home health. I know those people. You are in their home, sitting at their kitchen table. You represent the most trusted profession in the country. They are looking to you for answers. Your co-workers are killing them.



I work with one dumbass nurse who brags about how her patients and families ALWAYS come first, but she won't vaccinate because she's decided COVID is just an elaborate insurance scam.

When the mandates kick in, I expect she'll retire and work someplace else a few days a month. I look forward to pointing out to her that I guess her patients and families never really came first at all. Spoiler, they never really did.


Goodbye to bad judgement, I say.

You will have new co-workers. Ones who actually DO CARE enough about their own bodies, their children, their families, their community and their patients to do science-based research and commit to evidence-based practice.

Let go.

It will be hard at first but life will go on, and we'll all be better for it.


((HUGS)) - an RN in Montana