If you have an institution policy that will back your request for the PPD or Quantiferon then that is what you use to support the request. A policy which outlines mandatory PPD or Quantiferon will allow you to push the issue and take it to the employee’s Manager to enforce that they are compliant. If you get no where with management then you can step it up to the HR level to enforce compliance. However without an institutional policy that mandates employees having a PPD or Quantiferon makes it tough to push the issue.
Mindy
Mindy Dube, MSN, APRN, FNP-C
Nurse Practitioner
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Lebanon, NH 03756
Tel (603-) 653-3850 | Fax (603) 650-0928
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
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Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2024 1:23 PM
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Subject: Re: [MCOH-EH] TB testing (TST): tuberculin skin testing **EXTERNAL**
How do you handle an employee who is refusing to do a PPD or Quantiferon-gold? This employee was a rehire in 2015, when this employee was initially hired in the 90’s they had PPDs done, several actually, as they were still checking them
How do you handle an employee who is refusing to do a PPD or Quantiferon-gold? This employee was a rehire in 2015, when this employee was initially hired in the 90’s they had PPDs done, several actually, as they were still checking them annually. When this employee was rehired in 2015, they declined to redo the PPD. I’ve been working on getting all our employee health files completed, and I came across the incomplete screening in their fire (they filled out the questionnaire, but nothing was administered), reached out to them and they’re declining both a PPD or Quantiferon-gold.
Any suggestions, resources, recommendations, etc. would be much appreciated.
Stephanie Perkins, MSN RN
Employee Health Nurse
Clinical Educator
North Bend Medical Center
541.267.5151 X 1667
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On Behalf Of Deanna Prater
Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2024 12:21 PM
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Subject: [MCOH-EH] TB testing (TST): tuberculin skin testing
We allow new hires to have their TB test read at other facilities. The form is signed by a licensed healthcare worker.
Deanna Prater BSN, RN
Director of Infection Control, Employee Health & Safety
Lower Umpqua Hospital
600 Ranch Road
Reedsport, Oregon 97467
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Fax: (541) 271-6353
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