Most of the seniors in the nursing homes are happy to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.
However, the willingness to vaccinate among nurses is significantly lower than hoped.
Many nurses are still very reluctant to accept vaccinations
Patient representative Peter Bauer does not yet want to bring up any compulsory vaccination against the coronavirus *
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Munich - Peter Bauer was surprised when he
got the first feedback from the homes
after the
start of
the
vaccination in Bavaria
.
“Surprised and also disturbed,” says the care officer of the Bavarian state government.
It's too early for official statistics.
But there are already indications that far fewer
nurses are
deciding to have a vaccination than hoped and expected.
In the Heilig-Geist-Spital in Schongau, for example, only 20 of the 45 nursing staff have decided to have the vaccination.
In the community home in Weilheim, only 53 of the 135 employees have been vaccinated so far.
In many other homes and hospitals the
trend is
similar.
Not just in Bavaria, but nationwide.
The German Society for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine conducted a survey on
vaccination readiness
in December
.
Around half of all nurses stated that they did not want to be vaccinated for the time being.
Peter Bauer explains this with uncertainty because the vaccine was approved so quickly.
“I don't think that there is general
skepticism about vaccinations
,” he says.
Corona vaccination in Bavaria: fewer nurses than hoped are being vaccinated - "our only chance"
Nevertheless, this development worries him.
“Doctors and nurses have a key position,” he
says.
Many people trust them on health issues.
“It would be bad if their low willingness to vaccinate also unsettled other people,” emphasizes Bauer.
The
nursing officer
doesn't want to look
so black
yet.
“I assume that many will want to wait for the first vaccinations and that the willingness will soon increase,” he says.
He does not want to think about mandatory vaccination for nurses yet.
He hopes he won't change his mind, he says.
"The vaccination is our only chance to get out of this pandemic."
Corona in Bavaria: Fewer nurses than hoped will be vaccinated - "We are trying to counteract this with education"
The Bavarian Red Cross has also registered that
fewer nurses than expected
in many
BRK facilities
want to be vaccinated.
"We are trying to counteract this with education," says spokesman Sohrab Taheri-Sohi.
In Pfaffenhofen, for example, the medical director of the vaccination center called a video conference with around 100 nurses to personally answer all questions about vaccination.
“Even employees with language barriers need to be included,” says Taheri-Sohi.
But he is also optimistic that the willingness to vaccinate will increase.
“We can already feel that from day to day,” he says.
He cannot imagine compulsory vaccination.
"That would contradict the principle of voluntariness at the Red Cross," he says.
And probably increase the skepticism about the vaccination.
"We rely on human persuasiveness and reason."
Anyone who has direct patient contact should have the right to vaccination.
Ursula Reichert, family doctor from Utting
Corona vaccinations in Bavaria: In the hospital in Miesbach, the willingness to vaccinate is high
However, there are also facilities in which the
willingness of the nursing staff to vaccinate is
high.
In the hospital in Miesbach, for example, the demand is currently so high that only prioritized staff can be vaccinated, reports a spokeswoman.
Dozens of employees have already registered for vaccinations.
Ursula Reichert is also surprised that so many
nurses
do not want to be vaccinated.
She is a doctor in Utting am Ammersee - and just like the employees in her practice, she only belongs to the second group that will be vaccinated.
Reichert would have liked to have vaccinated earlier for her and her colleagues.
"Especially since I've heard that administrative employees have already been vaccinated in a nearby hospital." Reichert explains this with the fact that there were
vaccine doses
left over there.
Nevertheless, she emphasizes: "Everyone who has direct patient contact should have priority." She cannot understand the skepticism of many nurses about vaccinations.
