Nurses Speak Out, #0015, 26/09/2021, AIN. Aged Care, NSW, AHPRA Verified
By Staff Reporter
Nurses Speak Out #0015,
26/09/2021
AIN. Aged Care, NSW.
AHPRA Verified
I work as an AIN (Assistant in Nursing) in aged care in rural NSW.
One of my colleagues in her mid 30s went home sick the day after her second Pfizer shot. She went white and nauseaus and faint. This was in March and she has not been back to work since (its September now). After ages of going to Doctors etc she was diagnosed with myocarditis, she says she can hardly do anything. She was fine and healthy before, slim, physically active and on a good diet. Whenever the other staff talk about it, the narrative goes: oh she must have had something else before that, surely it’s not from the vaccine.
Two residents died within 2-3 weeks after first Astra-Zeneca shots, however were overall in bad condition before.
Residents are not allowed to leave the facility and nobody is allowed to see them except on compassionate grounds (basically if someone becomes really unwell). This causes some of the people to be really mentally unwell. There has not been one Covid Case in our town for the whole course of the pandemic since 2020.
We are told we have a “choice” to either get the flu and covid shot or we can’t work here. Another colleague had 40 years experience in emergency nursing and refused the flu shot, she was subjected to sitting at the door doing covid checks for about six months (even when there was no flu season) until she gave up and resigned. She had never had a flu shot for her entire career.
contact: nursesspeakout@pm.me
