Comments on: Federal Court Rules that Nurses Cannot be Required to Have Flu Shots http://jonathanturley.org/2007/12/22/federal-court-rules-that-nurses-cannot-be-required-to-have-flu-shots/ Res ipsa loquitur ("The thing itself speaks") Mon, 28 May 2012 08:13:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Pennsylvania Supreme Court Reverses Teacher’s Firing Under Immorality Clause « JONATHAN TURLEY http://jonathanturley.org/2007/12/22/federal-court-rules-that-nurses-cannot-be-required-to-have-flu-shots/#comment-5234 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:31:45 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2007/12/22/federal-court-rules-that-nurses-cannot-be-required-to-have-flu-shots/#comment-5234 [...] Her firing was initially reversed by a state arbiter. The Supreme Court ruled that the arbiter’s decision under the collective bargaining agreement should be respected. In this sense, the decision resembles another collective bargaining contract decision that found that nurses in Washington state could not be required to have flu shots, discussed here [...]

]]> By: deeply worried http://jonathanturley.org/2007/12/22/federal-court-rules-that-nurses-cannot-be-required-to-have-flu-shots/#comment-4902 Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:31:40 +0000 http://jonathanturley.org/2007/12/22/federal-court-rules-that-nurses-cannot-be-required-to-have-flu-shots/#comment-4902 You are so right it is going to surprise the health administrators at least as well as the State DoH’s!

Jeepers! For the last year and more hospitals and clinics have been flooded with updates from CDC on preparation measures for avian H5N1 strain flu. Among which requirements are vaccinations for front-line staff (and nurses are front-line staff). A vaccine was developed and is not going to be made commercially available, but instead used by the government in mitigation efforts. Such efforts are of course going to be torpedoed by this 9th Circuit ruling (assuming ANY health professional would be so irresponsible as to decline vaccination)

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