How does an unvaccinated COVID-19 survivor seasoned RN keep working in nursing? How many nurses have resigned due to facilities vaccine mandates? What is the ration of new grads to expierenced nurses with >5yrs?

Unfortunately, contracting Covid-19 gives a limited immunity and even that is not certain. Due to the vulnerability of the population with which you would be working, it is not considered safe for them or your co-workers who are in close proximity to you during work hours. Eventually, I believe that this will pass and become like the yearly "flu" in that employers may or may not require yearly vaccination, depending on the type of patients you see. At this point, if you choose to decline vaccination, the only options would be remote work. Better a less experienced, vaccinated nurse with support that an unvaccinated nurse with greater experience but the chance of infecting an entire unit.

NURSES NEED TO MAKE THEIR DECISION ON VACCINATIONS. EACH INDIVIDUAL HAS THE RIGHT TO MAKE DECISIONS ON VACCINATION. THE PROTOCOL CURRENTLY IS NOT AN APPROACH FOR ALL NURSES, ONLY THOSE WHO BELIEVE AND STUDY THE RATIONALE. AS WE KNOW SOME VACCINES ARE NOT GOOD FOR ALL. NURSES AND MEDICAL STAFF HAVE THE RIGHT TO MAKE DECISIONS. PRIOR TO THIS WE ALWAYS HAD A CHOICE AND HOSPITALS OR CLINICS WOULD ALLOW US TO MAKE THEIR DECISIONS AND THE OPTION TO WEAR A MASK WHEN CARING FOR A PATIENT IS THEIR DECISION. WE MUST HONOR OUR NURSES AND HOSPITALS AND CLINICS NEED TO RECOGNIZE THE OPTIONS FOR NURSES' DECISIONS ON HOW TO MANAGE THIS ISSUE. SCIENCE IS NEED TO CLARIFY ALL SIDES. WE ARE IN NEED OF ALL HOSPITALS TO GIVE THE NUMBERS ON THOSE THAT RESIGNED DUE TO VACCINES.

You can get a religious exemption by obtaining a letter from your pastor or priest or rabbi. Submit that letter to your HR and that should be approved. My pastor wrote a letter for me and he cited several biblical principles and I submitted that to my HR and it was approved. Please note that there are now several studies credible peer reviewed studies that show COVID-19 vaccination is causing multiple side effects to those who have taken them and this is around the world. Additionally, death tolls are significantly higher with those who have taken the vaccine. This is happening in Europe, Canada and the USA. Those countries with lower rates of vaccinations like Africa and other 3rd world countries have less death tolls.

Do your research don’t accept what I’m saying but due your due diligence. Even the WHO and CDC are not looking at the science as they say. Please check out this link.
https://youtube.com/@Campbellteaching

Best of luck and don’t give up.

I’ve seen nurses 1 year away from retirement be terminated over no vaccine :( lost everything they worked so hard for

I can't answer all of that but I understand to an extent. I have not contracted covid that I know of (I don't always test myself when ill) but I am vaccinated. I got vaccinated before it was mandated, because I was working in a covid unit. The issue I am having is that I accepted a position a few weeks ago, and some how the part where they require a booster was muffled into the conversations so much that I don't recall it was mandatory. I presented my case, that I personally don't feel that the booster was very effective for these new strains, and that the original vaccine made me very ill, but they discouraged me from applying for a waiver on that grounds that it is unlikely to get approved. I was completely caught off guard that a facility now requires a booster for employment. It was a great opportunity offering the highest pay in the area, and that I have ever made, but I am in the process of rescinding the offer because I don't feel a booster is right for me at this time. Very disappointed though.

If you are working for any entity that accepts Medicare/CMS. You are going to have to be vaccinated, per their policy. They will not pay to any organizations with unvaccinated employees. There is no way around it. Further more it just saves the lives of your patients and family member if you are exposed to COVID-19.

Do telehealth nursing. However, I would not want an unvaccinated person working with me.

I hope a season nurse takes the shot, please remember we have mandatory shots and testing that precedes Covid. Nurses that have resigned to avoid the shot many and that have been let go/dismissed many I do mean many.

I do not want a nurse unvaccinated next to me or treating a patient.

We(nurses) have had immunization requirements and testing that precede Covid.

The ration of new grad to experience is dismissal.

Re-think your stance since vacinations save lives and reduce the seriousness of illnesses if acquired. That said, I have a nurse friend who, for autoimmune reasons, cannot under any circumstances have the Covid vaccine, and she works in telehealth. You might look at insurance companies which often hire nurses to serve as patient contacts via telephone or zoom and answer health questions and concerns for them. If you enjoy reading and writing, publishers such as Lippencott may have you peruse manuscripts online. Also, regular publishes who are considering novels about medicine/nurses, will have a nurse review the manuscript for glaring errors and insconsistencies with real practice before the books go to print. If you have a Masters think about teaching online courses. If you have a BSN, you could teach online LPN/certified Aide courses. Or even consider writing for publication yourself. Hope this helps. Good luck.

I believe that the nurse has the responsibility to protect the patients from harm as well as not infecting their families. It is very difficult to employ an unvaccinated nurse without the facility requiring for them to gear up with PPE"s to the limit and testing for Covid daily. And the facility may not want to take on that liability should a patient get Covid or the Nurse get covid and infect her entire family.