What hepatitis vaccine do healthcare workers get?
Health care workers (HCWs) who have a reason- able expectation of being exposed to blood on the job should be offered hepatitis B vaccine.
What vaccines are required for health care workers and why?
Immunization Administration Requirements For State: CA
| Vaccine | Requirement |
|---|---|
| MMR[3] | Offer[553] |
| Varicella[4] | Offer[554] |
| Pneumococcal[5] | No |
| Medical(M),Religious(R), or Philosophical(P) Exemptions[6] | No |
What vaccines do nurses need?
First and foremost, each nurse needs a flu shot every fall. All nurses, but particularly those who work with infants, need tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis vaccines. Other important immunizations include hepatitis B, varicella, measles, mumps, and rubella.
Which type of vaccine should be avoided in immunocompromised patients?
Varicella and zoster vaccines should not be administered to highly immunocompromised patients. Annual vaccination with inactivated influenza vaccine is recommended for immunocompromised patients six months and older, except those who are unlikely to respond.
Which type of vaccine elicits the strongest immune response?
The measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is one example. These vaccines elicit strong immune responses that can confer life-long immunity after only one or two doses.
Should immunocompromised patients get live vaccines?
Because the vaccine is weakened, a normal immune system isn’t going to lose the fight. If you are immunocompromised on the other hand, even a weakened virus or bacteria could cause an infection. You should avoid live vaccines if you are immunocompromised for this reason.
What are the contraindications for live vaccines?
Invalid Contraindications to Vaccination
- Mild Illness.
- Moderate or Severe Acute Illness.
- Nonanaphylactic Allergy.
- Allergy to Products Not Present in Vaccines.
- Antimicrobial Therapy.
- Breastfeeding.
- Household Contacts of Pregnant or Immunosuppressed Persons.
- Preterm Birth.
Why live attenuated vaccines are contraindicated in immunocompromised patients?
In general, severely immunocompromised children should not receive live vaccines, either viral or bacterial, because of the risk of disease caused by vaccine strains.
Why immunocompromised patients should not receive vaccines or toxoids?
Severely immunocompromised persons generally should not receive live vaccines (3). Because of the theoretical risk to the fetus, women known to be pregnant generally should not receive live, attenuated virus vaccines (4).
What immunosuppressed means?
(IH-myoo-noh-suh-PREH-shun) Suppression of the body’s immune system and its ability to fight infections and other diseases. Immunosuppression may be deliberately induced with drugs, as in preparation for bone marrow or other organ transplantation, to prevent rejection of the donor tissue.
Which vaccines can you not give together?
Not Given Simultaneously Exception is yellow fever vaccine given less than 30 days after single antigen measles vaccine, single antigen mumps vaccine, single antigen rubella vaccine, or varicella vaccine.
Which two vaccines need to be separated by at least 28 days if not given simultaneously?
In patients recommended to receive both PCV13 and PPSV23, the 2 vaccines should not be administered simultaneously (28).
Which vaccines can you give together?
Examples of combination vaccines are: DTap (diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis), trivalent IPV (three strains of inactivated polio vaccine), MMR (measles-mumps-rubella), DTap-Hib, and Hib-Hep B. Often, more than one shot will be given during the same doctor’s visit, usually in separate limbs (e.g. one in each arm).
Is pneumonia vaccine live or inactivated?
Effectiveness of the pneumococcal vaccine The pneumococcal vaccine given to older children and adults is thought to be around 50 to 70% effective at preventing pneumococcal disease. Both types of pneumococcal vaccine are inactivated or “killed” vaccines and do not contain any live organisms.
What medical conditions require pneumonia vaccine?
Chronic heart disease. Chronic liver disease. Chronic lung disease, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, emphysema, and asthma. Diabetes mellitus.
Can you get pneumonia if you had the shot?
You cannot get pneumonia from the vaccine. The shots only contain an extract of the pneumonia bacteria, not the actual bacteria that cause the illness. But some people have mild side effects from the vaccine, including: Swelling, soreness, or redness where you got the shot.
How many times do you have to have a pneumonia shot?
Younger than 2 years old: four shots (at 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, and then a booster between 12 and 15 months) 65 years old or older: two shots, which will last you the rest of your life. Between 2 and 64 years old: between one and three shots if you have certain immune system disorders or if you’re a smoker.
Why does pneumonia vaccine hurt so much?
The pain you are experiencing is usually soreness of the muscle where the injection was given. Injection site pain and most other common side effects are actually a good sign; it indicates that your body is starting to build immunity against pneumococcal diseases.