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

 

 

 

 

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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