Our Medical Staff services has it in their privileging process that the provider has either 2 negative PPDs or one IGRA from the last year. Since we no longer do PPDs for our employees we will provide the Quant
gold for them if they are in the area before working.
We are in a low risk area and therefore only do testing on hire and later if there is an exposure. Because of that we do require the 2 step or the IGRA.
Kate Miller, RN
Caregiver Health Nurse
541-706-4771 (office)
541-706-2694 (fax)
kemiller@stcharleshealthcare.org
St. Charles Health System
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On Behalf Of Susan Higgins
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Subject: Re: [MCOH-EH] Tb screening on locum providers
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On Behalf Of Morelli, Karen J
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2018 10:32 AM
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Subject: [MCOH-EH] Tb screening on locum providers
Good Morning,
I am curious about what everyone else’s process is for Tb screening on locums providers. I find that, unlike traveling nurses or students, locums don’t necessarily have Tb screening done annually. With traveling nurses and students, it
is a requirement of their school/contract to have this done annually. Therefore, if a student or traveling nurse has had a Tb screen within the last 12 months (and has the documentation) we don’t do anything further. With locums, we have been treating them
like a new hire and going on the MMWR recommendations of testing, thus our screening depends on what documentation they bring us for historical Tb screening. We then move forward to provide them with an updated screening (example, if they bring us a documented
ppd they had 6 months ago, we would plant one more ppd. If they have no documentation, we would just go straight to the IGRA). We are questioned why we don’t treat locums like traveling nurses/students with regard to the Tb screening (and accept one Tb screen
within the last 12 months). I appreciate any knowledge you have on the topic.
Thank you,
Karen Morelli RN, BSN, Clinical Manager
WorkHealth LLC
973-7382
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