Attending nursing school without an MMR due to autoimmune disability

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My daughter has an auto immune desease that prevents her from receiving her MRR shot. She desperatly want to become a nurse but we have not yet be able to find a clinical location that will accept her because of her inabiltiy to receive the MMR due to her diabilty. Can anyone help? thanks.

Specializes in ICU/community health/school nursing.

The MMR is live attenuated (the others aren't) - so she needs to have a long conversation with her provider regarding her condition, the medication, and the risks and benefits.

However, has she ever had the MMR vaccine? If so, your insurance will likely pay for a titer for her to see if she is immune (and therefore not needing an additional dose).

If she has never had the MMR or measles or mumps or rubella - it's unlikely a program will take her but that is a decision that any individual accredited school will make. The Rubella is significant if she intends to become pregnant, btw.

Good luck!

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3 hours ago, ruby_jane said:

However, has she ever had the MMR vaccine? If so, your insurance will likely pay for a titer for her to see if she is immune (and therefore not needing an additional dose).

If she has never had the MMR or measles or mumps or rubella - it's unlikely a program will take her but that is a decision that any individual accredited school will make. The Rubella is significant if she intends to become pregnant, btw.

Good luck!

Great thought!  Like myself, a lot of people develop auto immune disorders in adulthood.

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Specializes in Med-Surg/Tele/ER/Urgent Care.

Former faculty, she will need all vaccines current to attend clinicals usually at hospitals and without MMR can not complete pediatrics or labor & delivery/nursery or any clinicals. She can not be the vector of disease transmission. The clinical sites determine the requirements for students.

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I don’t know of any facility that would ever hire your daughter due to liability.

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On 1/4/2021 at 3:15 PM, tmurray501 said:

she has enough trying to stay healty. She works even when her knees and ankle etc are swelled and in seriour pain. This about finding somebody who might know of a way to get her into nursing school with her disabilty.

Why would you are she put her in the possibility to contract Measles, mumps oe rubella? Seems like a truly bad idea...

 

On 1/4/2021 at 5:07 PM, tmurray501 said:

Shes does not want to be Nurse to make money, she want to because she loves it! You should push hard to follow your dreams. 

 

Lots and lots of other areas to be involved in (with caution). Follow you dreams for sure, but not at the expense of others or yourself. Papa, leave the pursuit of the educational dream to her...

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Specializes in School Nursing.
On 1/4/2021 at 4:15 PM, tmurray501 said:

Well, first of all, this isn't about learning to manage her own affairs, she has enough trying to stay healty. She works even when her knees and ankle etc are swelled and in seriour pain. This about finding somebody who might know of a way to get her into nursing school with her disabilty. 

My name and phone number is my decision. I'm a big boy.

If anyone has any ideas or info that might help please respond or your welcome to give me a call.

tmurray,

It is about her learning to manage her own affairs. If she wants to go to nursing school, she will have to learn to do this. You are not going to be able to fight her battles there. If her disability is such that her lower extremities are so painful, and she has so much to do to try and stay healthy, will she be able to handle the hard work in nursing? Being able to transfer adult patients from bed to the wheelchair by herself, turn and reposition the same patients, constantly being on her feet the entire 12 hour shift. It sounds like this may not be the career field for her.

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Specializes in NICU, ICU, PICU, Academia.
On 1/4/2021 at 6:07 PM, tmurray501 said:

She already had her covid vaccine, the other shots also are OK by her doctor. It is the MMR only that is holding her back. 

There is now a chicken pox vaccine that is dead and she can take, but so far not one for MMR.

Shes does not want to be Nurse to make money, she want to because she loves it! You should push hard to follow your dreams. 

 

My 'dream' was to be a member of the Beatles. (Not even kidding) I had a couple of strikes against me. I was nine. I'm female. And I cannot sing or read music. 

I guess my point is just because it's a 'dream' doesn't mean it is attainable - even if it for the most pure-hearted reasons. 

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Specializes in school nurse.
25 minutes ago, meanmaryjean said:

My 'dream' was to be a member of the Beatles. (Not even kidding) I had a couple of strikes against me. I was nine. I'm female. And I cannot sing or read music. 

I guess my point is just because it's a 'dream' doesn't mean it is attainable - even if it for the most pure-hearted reasons. 

Thank you for this!! I am so tired of the cliched "You can do and be anything you want to be" trope.

Yes, persevering against the odds and working hard can bring results in many cases.

But magical thinking does not...

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Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
55 minutes ago, meanmaryjean said:

My 'dream' was to be a member of the Beatles. (Not even kidding) I had a couple of strikes against me. I was nine. I'm female. And I cannot sing or read music. 

I guess my point is just because it's a 'dream' doesn't mean it is attainable - even if it for the most pure-hearted reasons. 

 

28 minutes ago, Jedrnurse said:

Thank you for this!! I am so tired of the cliched "You can do and be anything you want to be" trope..

We can do and be anything we what to be, Jedrnurese. 

Of course, we have to become delusional and live in the castles the neurotics built for us...

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again, not helpful but if it makes you feel better...

There are lots of jobs nurses can do that don't involve putting the public at high risk, or my daughter.I have had many good reply's and I appreciate them, this was not one of them.

nice use of the word troupe, been saving that for awhile??

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Specializes in school nurse.
20 minutes ago, Thomas Murray said:

again, not helpful but if it makes you feel better...

There are lots of jobs nurses can do that don't involve putting the public at high risk, or my daughter.I have had many good reply's and I appreciate them, this was not one of them.

nice use of the word troupe, been saving that for awhile??

Actually my comment was geared towards the sentiment expressed by the person to whom I responded. In that it was not directly helpful to your situation and perhaps came across as harsh, I apologize.

More directly to your point, yes there are positions within nursing in which the vaccination issue is rendered not particularly "important". That being said, I don't think there's a work-around re: going through nursing school and participating in clinicals...

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Thank you for the reply, I am begining to understand there may not be a way around it for now.

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