immunizations

My dear polish nurses

I hope that someone gets this information.

It is as indispensable as the sheepskin on during the Polish winter (talking about the last few years).

When tou go to the UK, you have to arrange a lot of paperwork. Agency tell you to translate diplomas, certificates, certificate of good behavior, and many others.

It is an important issue which you must check before departure.

Vaccination!!

Exacrly all vaccinations, starting from childhood.

In the UK, all vaccination are mandatory for health workers and laboratory staff.

This is not a defense for you, but in this way protects the patient who would have become infected from us.

If you hadn`t have rubella vaccine, you have to do it.

If you hadn`t have  a vaccine against measles, you have to do it.

If you hadn`t have hepatitis A vaccine, you have to do it.

This applies to all vaccines.

DTP, BCG-important for them is a scar, typhoid, MMR. All of them!!!

If a vaccine requires additional vaccinations, do it.

Especially in the case of the hepatitis B vaccine in Poland it is valid for 10 years, this is the information leaflet.

To prevent situation when the value fall below 100 mIU / ml tests should be performed for anti HBs, these results will know that you need to do so BOOSTER re-vaccination.

Sample questions about the vaccine:

TUBERCULOSIS (BCG)	GRUŹLICA (BCG)
Have you got a scar following a TUBERCULOSIS immunisation?	Czy masz blizne po szczepionce na gruźlicę
RUBELLA (German measles)	Różyczka
POLIOMYELITIS	POLIO
POLIO/TETANUS/DIPTHERIA	POLIO/ TĘŻEC/BŁONICA
MMR	Odra, Świnka, Różyczka
VARICELLA (Chickenpox), Have you ever been tested for antibodies?	OSPA, Czy kiedykolwiek sprawdzano Ci przeciwciała?
TETANUS/DIPHTHERIA (combined dose) TETEANUS (single dose) DIPHTHERIA (single dose)	Tężec/ Błonica (połączona dawka)       Tężec (pojedyńcza dawka) Błonica (pojedyńcza dawka)
TYPHOID	Dur brzuszny
HEPATITIS A	WZW typu A
HEPATITIS B                                                        1ST Injection 2nd injection 3rd  Injection	WZW typu B                                  podając wszystkie 3 daty szczepień
TITRE LEVEL Give full results (including copy of laboratory report for staff undertaking exposure prone procedures)	Miano przeciwciał !!!!
BOOSTERS	Doszczepionka WZW typu B
VIRAL LOAD TESTING Give full results (including copy of laboratory report for staff undertaking exposure prone procedures)	????
HEPATITIS C if you have undergone testing please supply copy of laboratory report	Przeciwciała anty HCV

A detail not mentioned by anyone during the recruitment process. Just when your documents will check doctor on-site, Occupational health nurse… problems may arise.

So much trouble may delay the departure of up to 8 weeks,

In 90% of employers will not wait.

And these vaccines anyway we should do