A immunization records issue.Please help me! Thank you!

U.S.A. Massachusetts

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After three months struggling with tears and sweats, I finally got a offer in a nice hospital!

I prepared everthing for my new lovely career. Before I graduated, I took all my immunization shot at the same clinic center. But I got chickenpox when I was young. My clinic center didn't provide Titer blood test. So I had to chose a bigger hospital to get my Chickenpox Titer. In this case, my documents are coming from two doctors.

Today I got the pre-empolyee physical exam (PEP) schedule confirmation e-mail. They told me to bring my offical Immunization Records to my schedule.

On the e-mail they mention that:"all the records must be from a doctor.

Miscellaneous documentsare not considered to be an official record."

I was wondering if there is any method that I can combine my records? Or is there any better ways to deal with this problem?

Thank you so much for your time. Please help me!

P.S: I quoted a paragraph from HR's e-mail, just for making sure I didn't misunderstanding it.

"Official Immunization Records - These records must be from a doctor. Miscellaneous documents are not considered to be an official record.

The Immunization Record should include documentation of the following:

A. Candidates will be required to provide proof of immunity to measles, mumps and rubella and a verbal history of chickenpox. If no documentation is available, you can have a titer drawn. It usually takes about one week for the results to come in, or you can receive a booster shot at Occupational Health.

B. Tetorifice Vaccination within the last 10 years

C. PPD (Pure protein derivative) TB- (Tuberculosis screening) test within the last 12 months. If the

TB test was positive, you MUST bring your chest x-ray report to the appointment

D. A blood test for Hepatitis B immunity will be offered.

E. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has enacted a law requiring health care personnel to influenza vaccinations or to sign declinations statement. If you have received the vaccinations, please bring documentation to support this. The vaccinations and declination forms will be offered at the time of your pre-employment physical.

F. The candidate must make every effort to obtain their official immunization records prior to their appointment. Vaccinations may be received at Employee Health Services if needed."....

Specializes in NICU.

As long as the documents were ordered by a doctor then it shouldn't be an issue. It doesn't need to be the same doctor. I believe they are referring to miscellaneous documents such as your mother writing down in your baby book when you got the shots. You can't just show them your baby book and say "see, my mother wrote them down when I got the shots." They want official medical records that prove you got the shots and not something written down by you or your mother. Every result you have are "official" results from a lab ordered by a doctor. That is what they want.

Specializes in Pedi.

You have official records from the clinic that administered your immunizations and the hospital that ran your titers. That's all they want.

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