Birth Shot Records for school??????

Fun2, BSN, RN · Apr 6, 2006

I'm sure they do 'full rounds' on adults.

As for the past illnesses d/t the shots, maybe it was from the way they were made?????? I heard they used to put mercury in the shots, which some believe is the reason some children became autistic after being immunized.

Your Dr. may want to do them individually, instead of several kinds all the same day. That way you know which, if any, that you may have a reaction to. Also, you may have outgrown the adverse affects.

Titers may be best since you don't know what caused the past illnesses.

The only way to know for sure is to talk to your Dr./FNP/PA about your situation, and let them decide what is the best route for you.

I wonder what I should do. I had my only set of shots as an infant 8 weeks old? And only once. I ended up in the hospital the night of the shots. I was blue, not breathing. Turned into pneumonia and I almost died as an infant. My parents decided it was the shots. Who knows. So I never had shots again. For school my parents filled out objection papers so I never had shots again. I had chicken pox at age 22. But I saw the doc after the pox when I had a touch of pneumonia. He wrote in my records "I'm quite sure this is varicella pneumonia." No testing done. I have had tetorifice shots as an adult. They were booster shots. But what were they boosting (original once as an infant)?
I went to work for a hospital about 15 years ago and they did a titer. They said I had antibodies to "everything". That hospital is now out of business. No records available. My insurance doesn't cover titers or shots. Considered routine normal health maintenance, only covers sickness (not prevention).
So anyway, I guess I have to pay for a titer, or just get a full round of shots off the bat. I'm a bit leary of getting a full round of shots. Do they do that on adults? Start out like a child's schedule? I asked my internist and he said "beats me, I don't do kids shots...never had an adult like you who only had shots once as an infant."
Ideas? Anything I'm not thinking of? Thank you all.

prmenrs, RN · Apr 6, 2006

You could see if you can go to a clinic @ the Health Dep't. Or, ask you doc to "please find out". The cheapest way would be to get the shots again. You may not need Varicella since that is a fairly recent event.

LanaBanana · Apr 6, 2006

I would go to the health department. That's where my dr's office told me to go because it's cheaper. They can tell you exactly how to go about doing adult series because I'm pretty sure it's different. As for chicken pox, for my school we just had to sign that we had had them and an approx date or show proof of immunization. I would think that if you had them when you were little and told your current doc that, most docs would go ahead and sign off that you had them. I mean, it is for your own good to have either gone through the pox or had the shots. For any of the things your health department doesn't do, they can usually tell you where to go that is cheap. Mine doesn't do TB testing but I found a clinic that does that kind of stuff pretty cheap. Also, if you've had a chest x-ray in the last year I think they can also use that as proof of neg TB. Some programs will let you get away with refusing the hep B shots as a student because they know that when you start working as a nurse the hospital/clinic will usually pay for you to get that shot. However, I wouldn't feel comfortable even doing clinicals around needles without having it. Basically, you're going to need all this stuff anyway to work in a hospital.

Multicollinearity, BSN, RN · Apr 6, 2006

Thank you both for the idea of going to the health department. I'm going to give them a call. I was hoping there was something I hadn't thought of, and you thought of it for me. Thanks.

atrice, BSN, RN · Apr 6, 2006

Thanks everyone for the great ideas. One question, what is a CVS Minute Clinic? I have never heard of it.....i live in TX....we have a CVS pharmacy. I went to my high school today and got a copy of my transcript which had a small area to the side (smaller than a business card) that had my Td, MMR, and polio vaccination dates on it. No doc or nurse signatures on it...i'm going to take it the the nursing dept. at my college and see if it will be sufficient.

Fun2, BSN, RN · Apr 6, 2006

Mine didn't have signatures either, but it was stamped official by the school.

Take that to your Dr. when you get your physical, etc. They will probably put the dates on the physical form.

Good luck!

Thanks everyone for the great ideas. One question, what is a CVS Minute Clinic? I have never heard of it.....i live in TX....we have a CVS pharmacy. I went to my high school today and got a copy of my transcript which had a small area to the side (smaller than a business card) that had my Td, MMR, and polio vaccination dates on it. No doc or nurse signatures on it...i'm going to take it the the nursing dept. at my college and see if it will be sufficient.

tookewlandy · Apr 7, 2006

I got a list if past Immunizations from my middle school i never got any booster shots or immunizations for high school do i have to get these shots again these are what i got

diphtheria and tetorifice(4 shots last one 9/20/84)

Polio(4 shots last one 9/26/84)

Measles(hard,red)(1 shot on 7/2/82)

Rubella(German Measles)(1 shot on 7/2/82)

Mumps(1 shot on 7/2/82)

I know i ad another tetorifice shot on 6/24/1996 i think you may need to get one every ten years or so

But what about the others and what other shots do they want you to have for Nursing School?

Any insight would be helpful

Andy

allthingsbright · Apr 7, 2006

I just got accepted to nursing school for Fall06. And I have alot to do between now and then but one thing I am clueless about is how to find my shot records from birth I am thirtyfive years old and I don't have any idea about how to obtain records from this far back. Did anybody else have this problem or a solution to my dilemma.

yeah, i actually found them in my baby book where my mom wrote them in! i copied them and they worked for school. it is wierd, i wonder if younger students have different records for this? my kids have very FORMAL records of everything. :uhoh3:

Fun2, BSN, RN · Apr 7, 2006

diphtheria and tetorifice(4 shots last one 9/20/84)
Polio(4 shots last one 9/26/84)
Measles(hard,red)(1 shot on 7/2/82)
Rubella(German Measles)(1 shot on 7/2/82)
Mumps(1 shot on 7/2/82)
I know i ad another tetorifice shot on 6/24/1996 i think you may need to get one every ten years or so

It all depends on what is required by the hospitals your school deals with.

Ours is:

Measles (2)

Mumps (1)

Rubella (1)

Tetorifice/Diphtheria (1 w/i 10 yrs)

Varicella (chickenpox) (2 doses, unless one was received before age 13, then only 1 dose, or history of disease

Hepatitis B series (3 doses) 1st dose, 2nd 1 month later, 3rd 5 months after second dose

(or titers showing immunity for all)

Also, a negative PPD w/i 6 months, or if a positive PPD, then a negative chest x-ray.

I personally got one MMR as a booster, even though I had my immunizations already, a Hep A, even though it's not required yet, and a Tetorifice, even though *I think* I had one when my now 8-yr old was born.

.....Never too careful.

bsunurse · Apr 7, 2006

I am really suprised that your school does not offer these services to you. I am in the first semester of my senior year in nursing school and our university covers all of our immunizations and physicals that we have to have throughout the program. They also covered a couple that I hadn't had recently enough before I started the program. I would look into this! We just have to go to the school clinic and tell them that we are in the nursing program. I hope this is that case for you guys too!

allthingsbright · Apr 7, 2006

I am really suprised that your school does not offer these services to you. I am in the first semester of my senior year in nursing school and our university covers all of our immunizations and physicals that we have to have throughout the program. They also covered a couple that I hadn't had recently enough before I started the program. I would look into this! We just have to go to the school clinic and tell them that we are in the nursing program. I hope this is that case for you guys too!

WOW!

capribry · Apr 7, 2006

I had to get my shot records when I started college which was 2 years ago. I got the records from my high school. But then again I'm only 20 and still live in the same area so that might be the reason why I obtain mine so easily. The shots that I needed to get updated, they offered at my school and they were pretty cheap. They added to your tuition so you had to pay it before you can register again.