Flu Shots
InfoLink - Fri Nov 23, 2012Every year the university uses the second year nursing students and the third year pharmacology students to give free flu shots to the campus community. To get one, all you need is your ONEcard.
The first year I went, I was leery about having a student give me my shot, and I started to dream up all kinds of different flu shot horror stories. But having a flu shot given to me by the students at the U of A has been the most positive experience that I’ve had, under the circumstances. My nurse has always been extremely professional and friendly, and the whole system is so well organized that it only took about 45 minutes from start to finish, including the 15 minutes you have to wait after getting the shot.
Although the mass flu shot clinic offered by the U of A is now closed, not to worry. You can still get your flu shot for free from the University Health Centre, or by a drop in at any Edmonton based clinic.
But why should you bother getting one? Most of my friends didn’t get the flu shot, thinking they wouldn’t need it or it wouldn’t work. But in my mind it is better to be protected from the three most common strains of the flu, both for my own health and to insure that I don’t carry the bug home to my family, then to risk it. And to the skeptics out there who don’t believe the flu shot does anything, I would tell them that it is better to get it just in case, then to need it and not have it.
