Some nurses in Lower Saxony are skeptical of the new corona vaccination.
You will be among the first to be vaccinated.
Compared to other federal states,
fewer carers
in
Lower Saxony
want to be
vaccinated
Nurses
actually belong to the first group who
should
receive
a
Corona
* vaccination
.
Should by educating and informing
nurses
and
orderlies
from a
vaccination
to be convinced.
Lower Saxony - The
vaccination campaign
against the
corona virus
has started.
According to the concept,
caregivers
in
old people's
and
retirement homes should be
among the first to
receive
a
vaccination
.
However, some of them hesitate - for various reasons.
There is a high
willingness to vaccinate
among
residents
of
old people's
and
nursing homes
in Lower Saxony.
According to the Diakonie, it is 80 to 95 percent.
This is mainly due to the old age of the seniors.
The residents are on average 86 to 87 years old, said Frank Pipenbrink,
nursing officer
at the Diakonisches Werk Protestant Churches in Lower Saxony.
"
The mortality rate is particularly high
in the case of
Covid-19 disease
." According to this, the elderly are particularly afraid of a severe
corona infection
.
Willingness to vaccinate among Diakonie nurses in Lower Saxony similar to that of the general population
According to the Diakonie, 60 to 70 percent of
nurses
in retirement homes in Lower Saxony
want to be
vaccinated
against
Covid-19
.
10 to 15 percent reject a
vaccination
, as feedback from various institutions shows.
“There are many skeptics and many who want to wait and see *,” said Pipenbrink.
However, these numbers do not differ from other occupational groups.
Since the willingness to vaccinate among the
nursing staff is
lower than that of the home residents *, politicians are considering an image campaign with people from public life.
The
Lower Saxony
Nursing
Chamber is also looking for ways to increase vaccination readiness.
Skeptical
nursing staff are
to be convinced
through comprehensive and transparent information
.
Such a campaign was already able to
significantly increase
the
willingness
to
vaccinate
among
nursing staff
for the
flu vaccination
in autumn 2020
.
Many are still
suspicious of
the
vaccine
; they are skeptical whether possible side effects have been adequately researched.
"These worries and concerns should also be taken seriously," said a spokeswoman for the
Lower Saxony
care
chamber.
There will be no compulsory vaccination.
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Vaccination for nurses: many people hesitated at the Bremer Heimstiftung
In some homes of the Bremer Heimstiftung there was initially only a
vaccination quota
of 30 to 40 percent.
Many
nurses
wait with the
vaccination
, said nursing director Susanne Brockmann.
However, these employees are not fundamentally opposed to vaccination.
Most just want to wait and see how others get the new
vaccine *
tolerate.
"Those are the concerns that many in the population also have," said Brockmann.
But she reckons that the reluctant
nurses
will soon be vaccinated.
+
The corona vaccination is still fairly new.
Many nurses in Lower Saxony are skeptical as to whether there are still side effects and are still waiting with the vaccination.
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At the Catholic aid organization Caritas in
Lower Saxony
,
too
, education is believed to be the right way to overcome the remaining skepticism and insecurity.
Erk Kosel, who
coordinates
the
elderly
and
care work
, speaks of up to 95 percent of the staff who
want to be vaccinated
against
Corona in
Caritas homes
.
In others, however, it is between 50 and 70 percent.
But it is still too early for reliable statements.
"It is a voluntary
vaccination
, the reasons are not asked on site," said Kosel.
Compulsory corona tests for employees - appeal to professional ethics
In view of the low
willingness of
the
nursing staff
to
vaccinate,
patient
advocates
are calling for
mandatory
corona tests
for all
nursing staff
- at every shift start.
"In order to adequately protect those in need of care given the staff's low willingness to vaccinate, we need a mandatory test for
caregivers,
" said the board of the German Foundation for Patient
Protection
, Eugen Brysch, of the "RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland" on Thursday (07.01.2021).
In their resolution, the federal and state governments decided to make more staff available for tests in
nursing homes
.
In this way, mandatory testing can also be implemented in practice, says Brysch.
Caregivers
often brought in
the
virus
from outside without knowing it.
It should not be that they endanger those in need of care.
The federal government's authorized
carer
, Andreas Westerfellhaus, makes a moral appeal to the
caregivers
.
It is part of the professional ethics of every
nurse
to do everything possible not to harm the people entrusted to them.
And at the moment it can only be
ensured
by
vaccination
that the virus cannot spread any further, ”he told the editorial network.
"
There is no
general
compulsory vaccination
, but
nursing staff
should perceive them as such because of their professional ethics."
Proof of infection protection could convince nursing staff
Protecting residents could
actually increase
their
willingness to vaccinate
, as the Federal Association of Private Providers of Social Services (bpa) believes.
To do this, however, it would have to be proven that vaccinated people no longer pose a risk of infection.
At the moment, all
hygiene rules
still
apply to vaccinated people
; they must continue to
wear
FFP2 masks
.
(Sebastian Richter with agencies)
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