Comments on: H1N1 http://www.jordoncooper.com/2009/11/21/h1n1/ A weblog about urbanism, technology, & culture. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:54:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: A nurse http://www.jordoncooper.com/2009/11/21/h1n1/comment-page-1/#comment-9118 A nurse Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:20:35 +0000 http://www.jordoncooper.com/2009/11/21/h1n1/#comment-9118 Well working in the health care industry - our clinic wasn't even informed they were vaccinating health care workers. After several messages, finally going to the top of the food chain - we found out they were just planning on 'dropping by' one day and weren't planning on calling to tell us (until they got a call from top of the food chain). Of course that would be the day that started two weeks of not all my staff being in. One of my favorite lines was 'your manager is kept in the loop'. which made me raise an eyebrow and go really? Huh, because I AM THE MANAGER! There was a moment of silence..... It makes no sense to me. We are a community based clinic. Flu is a community acquired illness. Hence should we not vaccinate the community workers? Even just a wee bit of communication? Just saying is all. At any rate, I very much understand your frustrations, even being within the system we have the same frustration. And to this day, still struggling to get answers and information on how best to take care of our patients. And if you want to talk about the not great planning on vaccination - the Health CEO for our region was the first to receive the vaccination, which was photographed and put on the front page of the paper. He of course justified it by saying he is a 'health care worker'. Really? I don't think he's ever been near a sick person. And the administration staff, board of directors and donors were also vaccinated before any actual 'health care workers'. Glad to hear your all starting to feel better. From what I hear it does take a while to really get to a hundred percent, but hoping the worst is behind. Well working in the health care industry – our clinic wasn’t even informed they were vaccinating health care workers. After several messages, finally going to the top of the food chain – we found out they were just planning on ‘dropping by’ one day and weren’t planning on calling to tell us (until they got a call from top of the food chain). Of course that would be the day that started two weeks of not all my staff being in. One of my favorite lines was ‘your manager is kept in the loop’. which made me raise an eyebrow and go really? Huh, because I AM THE MANAGER! There was a moment of silence….. It makes no sense to me. We are a community based clinic. Flu is a community acquired illness. Hence should we not vaccinate the community workers? Even just a wee bit of communication? Just saying is all.

At any rate, I very much understand your frustrations, even being within the system we have the same frustration. And to this day, still struggling to get answers and information on how best to take care of our patients.

And if you want to talk about the not great planning on vaccination – the Health CEO for our region was the first to receive the vaccination, which was photographed and put on the front page of the paper. He of course justified it by saying he is a ‘health care worker’. Really? I don’t think he’s ever been near a sick person. And the administration staff, board of directors and donors were also vaccinated before any actual ‘health care workers’.

Glad to hear your all starting to feel better. From what I hear it does take a while to really get to a hundred percent, but hoping the worst is behind.

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