Measles. Vaccines.

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On Monday I have to go through my list of students and see who has not been vaccinated with MMR and put it aside in case the DOH calls. I'm in NY and just worked really hard to get my non vax numbers way way down, so I have a pretty good idea of who is in progress(process?)

Any Cali nurses out there? How do you feel about this, and how do you deal with it in schools?

NY is pretty strict with vaccines and this STILL has been such a grind for me to round up stragglers and new immigrants' paperwork. I imagine Cali must be a hot mess.

Ours is usually due in Oct. as well. But last year NY State changed requirements so they gave us some extra time to have everyone become compliant this year,

I had 2 students who had to be sent home on the states deadline day. This is the first year my district has not had "first day exclusion". So most years I am back 5 days before students and would always spend those 5 days calling families who don't have the proper paperwork in to tell them that if the physical/immunization report is not in then their student cannot attend until we have the paperwork. Super surprisingly, parents do not like getting called on the first day of school and hearing "Come pick up your child" before the first bell rings. I think they think we are bluffing.

I had one kid this year that I contacted his mom 6 times between the start of school and the exclusion day and she kept promising to get it in and then on the exclusion day I called her to come get her student and magically it was faxed from her work. I had her child in my office for 3 hours before she could get around to it since there was no one else to pick him up.

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I would report/challenge each one ;)

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In NH, medical and a religious (notarized) exemptions are acceptable, not philosophical. I have a spreadsheet on my desktop and printed for rapid access. Those who are not in compliance will be excluded in the event of an outbreak, and I will work in tandem with the Public Health Nurse and administration.

I currently have 1 Medical and 4 Religious exemptions for 520 kids.

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In NH, medical and a religious (notarized) exemptions are acceptable, not philosophical. I have a spreadsheet on my desktop and printed for rapid access. Those who are not in compliance will be excluded in the event of an outbreak, and I will work in tandem with the Public Health Nurse and administration.

I currently have 1 Medical and 4 Religious exemptions for 520 kids.

Thankfully that puts your school well above the critical immunization threshold :)

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NJ is current considering a conscientious objection bill. Hopefully it will die in committee.

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NJ is current considering a conscientious objection bill. Hopefully it will die in committee.

Yea, THANKS Gov. Christie.

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In NH, medical and a religious (notarized) exemptions are acceptable, not philosophical. I have a spreadsheet on my desktop and printed for rapid access. Those who are not in compliance will be excluded in the event of an outbreak, and I will work in tandem with the Public Health Nurse and administration.

I currently have 1 Medical and 4 Religious exemptions for 520 kids.

That's a great idea! I am going to do that.

I have 2 religious exemptions (siblings) and 3 in process. 1 who is not really in process, but since he is 19 there is some loophole that we cannot exclude him from school. We spoke to Albany, and the senior nurse in our district had never heard of that, but okay!

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Yea, THANKS Gov. Christie.

He scares me.....way overreaction on the Ebola issue, now this.....Glad he is not where I live!

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