[MCOH-EH] Fw: Fwd: TB test results

[Deborah A. Pruim]

Our process mirrors the one below except that we use a 2-step PPD process instead of a tspot.  If a titer comes back negative we require a booster prior to medical clearance for hire.
Thanks,
Debbie
Deborah Pruim, RN, MSN, APN, CNS
Employee Health Services
Little Company of Mary Hospital
2800 W. 95th Street
Evergreen Park, IL  60805
Monday – Friday
6:30am-3pm
Phone:  708-229-5623
Fax:  708-229-6618
dpruim at lcmh.org<mailto:dpruim at lcmh.org>

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Good morning,

Our policy here is that employees cannot be cleared to start work until they have all of the following:

Urine drug screen
Tspot result
MMR vaccines or positive titer
Varicella vaccines or positive titer
Hep B vaccine or titer (if the titer is negative, then they can receive first hep b vaccine during orientation)
Influenza vaccine (during influenza season)
Tdap

They must have all the above criteria completed/resulted by 4:30 pm the Friday before orientation.  If the Tspot or titers are not back by that time, they cannot start orientation the following Monday.  This does cause some upset managers when they are in a hurry to get employees started.  We set it up this way so no one shows up to orientation on a Monday and has to be sent home because one of the results isn’t back.

Thanks,

Jen

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Subject: [MCOH-EH] Fw: Fwd: TB test results



Good morning,
I have a question related to TB testing for my employee health colleagues. Do you allow new employees to start work before a TB test is completed, whether by PPD or IGRA? My practice has been to wait for a result before giving clearance. I have allowed staff to start work before having titers for MMR, varicella, Hep B but I have always waited for TB results, regardless of what new position they are taking, e.g. office vs clinical.
What is everyone else’s practice?
Thank you

Andrea Murphy RN CIC
Infection Prevention / Employee Health


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