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I came back from lunch this afternoon and met a research nurse in the copy room where I was checking my mailbox.
"Hi Jim," I said.
"Hi Rivka. Did you get your flu shot?"
"No, but I'd like one. Are you giving them out?" Then I noticed that he was carrying a small cooler.
"Yeah, I just got Lydia [my boss] five minutes ago. Let's go to your office."
So he followed me back to my office, where Lydia was holding a meeting with an immunologist, rolled up my sleeve, swabbed my arm with alcohol, told me to relax, and jabbed me almost painlessly with a needle. ("Little stick... now you'll feel some pressure... there you go.")
Then he gave me a consent form, asked me to sign the bottom and initial next to all of the caveats ("I am not allergic to eggs. RW. I do not have a fever or a respiratory illness. RW. I am not..."), and got my name and campus phone number for a raffle.
Total time taken out of my schedule: none, because I was able to listen in on the meeting while I was being injected and initialling things.
The same thing happened last year, but at the clinic where I collect research data. I asked a nurse "can I get a flu shot here?" and she said "yes, roll up your sleeve." That time I didn't get entered into a raffle for free stuff, though, so it was less satisfying.
"Hi Jim," I said.
"Hi Rivka. Did you get your flu shot?"
"No, but I'd like one. Are you giving them out?" Then I noticed that he was carrying a small cooler.
"Yeah, I just got Lydia [my boss] five minutes ago. Let's go to your office."
So he followed me back to my office, where Lydia was holding a meeting with an immunologist, rolled up my sleeve, swabbed my arm with alcohol, told me to relax, and jabbed me almost painlessly with a needle. ("Little stick... now you'll feel some pressure... there you go.")
Then he gave me a consent form, asked me to sign the bottom and initial next to all of the caveats ("I am not allergic to eggs. RW. I do not have a fever or a respiratory illness. RW. I am not..."), and got my name and campus phone number for a raffle.
Total time taken out of my schedule: none, because I was able to listen in on the meeting while I was being injected and initialling things.
The same thing happened last year, but at the clinic where I collect research data. I asked a nurse "can I get a flu shot here?" and she said "yes, roll up your sleeve." That time I didn't get entered into a raffle for free stuff, though, so it was less satisfying.
