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Janette Miller's avatar

I am 62 up to date on my Covid, flu, pneumonia, and RSV vaccines. I am an outpatient dialysis RN and I struggle with some of my patients and vaccines. I give them the facts and tell them I have gotten them all with no issues. Sometimes it helps to tell them I had no issues with the vaccines. I struggle more with family members but most of the time I win.

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Ellen's avatar

I have a relative who is in a nursing home in a wealthy town in MA. They’re short staffed. They provide a flu shot, but you have to go to a pharmacy for a covid vaccine. So I keep track of my relatives’ covid vaccines and take her to get them. It’s surprising that a covid vaccine isn’t a standard nursing home option. My experience from visiting a few nursing homes in the state is that they’re often short staffed, and workers call out sick a lot??

I’ve been visiting my relative at this one for 3 years. It seems we as a society… need to pay health care aids and assistants more money to get more workers. Increase the wages for the people who do bedside care, brush teeth, help people get dressed and use bathroom (fall prevention), ambulate with assistance or monitoring etc. ~ encourage eating and drinking water ~ hydration ~ plus a little emotional support and daily conversation …the literal basics for human dignity and basic daily wellness, hygiene, safety. We gotta invest more into these resources and also make long term care actually affordable. Long term care is such a giant economic issue obviously and for families it’s often really difficult in general to navigate and understand. Happy Thanksgiving to all health professionals working on Thursday…and holidays to help others .

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