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California Nurses Association/NNOC Issues Policy on H1N1 Flu Vaccination: Encourage, Don't Mandate
WASHINGTON - September 30 - As the national H1N1 pandemic arrives, with the vaccine following shortly, the nation's largest professional association and union of registered nurses has issued new nursing practice guidelines to structure its use. The California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC) will present this policy as bargaining demands to hospital management, and as guidance to regulators and legislators.
Deborah Burger, RN, co-president of CNA/NNOC remarked that,
"The H1N1 virus presents a profound and unprecedented challenge to our nation's fraying healthcare system. The H1N1 flu vaccine should be offered as one part of a comprehensive program to deal with this pandemic. That care plan must also contain immediate improvements to hospital infection control procedures, including the guarantee of an adequate supply of the appropriate N95 respirator masks as well as thoughtful isolation procedures, in addition to an immediate improvement to the public health safety net patients rely upon, and a moratorium of closures of hospitals and emergency rooms."
"At the heart of this policy is the belief that every RN should be vaccinated against the H1N1 influenza virus, but nurses should maintain their right to decline for personal reasons; in addition, every RN who contracts H1N1 must be cared for properly by her facility and local government, including with the guarantee of appropriate sick leave and presumptive eligibility for workers' compensation." The policy reads:
- As frontline caregivers at the heart of the healthcare
system, CNA/NNOC strongly recommends that all registered nurses
(RNs) are vaccinated against the H1N1 influenza
virus.
- Any vaccination program for RNs should include extensive
education on the risks and benefits of vaccination, with an
emphasis on patient protection and the need to be prepared for a
serious pandemic outbreak.
- CNA/NNOC supports an RN's right to decline
vaccination.
- RNs should be granted presumptive eligibility for workers' compensation benefits as a result of contracting the H1N1 influenza virus, and should not be subject to disciplinary action by an employer due to absenteeism or illness resulting from the vaccine.
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Show AllThe strongest nurses association in the country is speaking out against mandatory vaccines. Will doctors stand up for civil rights as well?
Neither should not be encouraging the H1N1 vaccines to anyone, though since the H1N1 flu is mild.
MIT expert Peter Doshi suggests WHO and US government have been
unjustified in declaring a pandemic level 6 emergency over the swine
flu in a paper published online in the BMJ. He notes that the swine flu
is mild - and very different from the lethal pandemic predicted by WHO
when the "swine flu" mysteriously appeared in Mexico City in April.
"Pandemic A/H1N1 virus is not a new subtype but the same subtype as
seasonal H1N1 that has been circulating since 1977. Furthermore, a
substantial portion of the population may have immunity. ...
He also points out that, since the emergence of A/H1N1, the World Health
Organisation has revised its definition of pandemic flu."
http://www.theflucase.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article
&id=493%3Awho-pandemic-declaration-over-qswineq-flu-alarmist-and-unjustified-argues-mit-expert&catid=1%3Alatest-news&Itemid=64&lang=en
The study challenges common beliefs about the flu--in particular the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) claim that "the hallmark of pandemic influenza is excess mortality."
Peter Doshi, a graduate student in the History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology and Society Program at MIT, based his study on an analysis of more than a century of influenza mortality data. He found that the peak monthly death rates in the 1957-1958 and 1968-1969 pandemic seasons were no higher than--and were sometimes exceeded by--those for severe nonpandemic seasons.
... He argues that "had no other aspect of modern medicine but antibiotics been available in 1918, there seems good reason to believe that the severity of this pandemic would have been far reduced."
... Doshi calculates an 18-fold decrease in influenza deaths between the 1940s and 1990s, a trend that began far before the introduction of widespread vaccination.
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/pandemic-0411.html
This CDC analysis by a neurologist backs Doshi's work about the CDC's data and predictions and also indicts the vaccines.
http://weeksmd.com/?p=1966 WATCH THE VIDEO ABOUT THE VACCINES.
Shiv Chopra, a Food and Drug Safety expert, famous as the whistle blower who kept Monsanto's rBGH out of Canada, is a microbiologist whose specialty is vaccines. He is blowing the whistle now on the vaccine. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOUT VACCINES.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J0vhNwBgjE&feature=PlayList&p=CF3B916768B8D783&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=11
Nurses should protect themselves from the vaccines, and not hype the virus about which the New England Journal of Medicine says: "The estimated fatality rate is 0.4% — this virus is considerably less lethal than the virus that caused the 1918–1919 pandemic but somewhat more lethal than usual seasonal flu viruses."
http://h1n1.nejm.org/?p=672
Ahttp://www.campussafetymagazine.com/News/Default.aspx?NewsID=3099
California nurses should be aware the vaccines are "far more deadly than the flu." http://www.i-sis.org.uk/fastTrackSwineFluVaccineUnderFire.php