B R Nursing School

If you’ve never had a flu shot because you don’t believe they will help you fight off the flu, your body doesn’t do well with the flu vaccination, or you’re just scared of needles, you will now be forced to get the flu shot if you’re a student of any type of nursing. Regardless if you are a CNA or Nursing student, you will now have to get the flu shot BEFORE performing your clinicals.

With recent outbreaks of hard to fight virus’, the nursing board now demands that we get these vaccinations before working with patients. This is something that should have been in place years ago, but since the recent, hard to tame strands of the flu, they finally put this practice in place. When in nursing clinicals, we come in contact with many sick people. Especially the young, elderly, and other people with decreased immune systems.

Do you think it is right for them to demand us to inject something in our body, even though we know we will get sick from it? Not all of us get sick from the flu shot. However, there are some of us that know our body much better than our doctors. We know for a fact how our body reacted to the last flu vaccination that we received in the past. So, should we do it? Yes. We are in the health care business. We care for people on a higher level than most. If we honestly care about people, we will put this vaccination into our body without thinking twice so that we can care for these patients.

The bottom line is that we MUST care for our own bodies, keep them in top physical shape in order to care for the ones that need us the most. Take care of your body, exercise, do not smoke or drink heavy and you should not have a problem with the flu shot. Keep that immune system strong by taking vitamins daily and getting plenty of vitamin C into the body each day.

If you have any questions, concerns or comments, let us know. We will be happy to discuss this further. Voice your opinions about the mandatory flu shot with us!!

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