I am a first semester nursing student, I'm taking Fundamentals and in two weeks we start our clinic rotation at the hospital.
Today I was informed by my CI that I might not be able to continue the semester and I might be asked to step out of the class.
The problem is my chickenpox titers. I never had chickenpox and I got my two shot series vaccine more than two months ago. When I got my titers about three weeks ago, they came back as equivocal.
When I spoke with my CI about this she said not to worry about it since I had the vaccine done. Now she is saying that I need my titers to be positive if I want to be allowed to go to clinicals. I just got my titers re-done again today and now I'm here praying and keeping my fingers crossed.
I am very mad because I was told that it was not a problem, and also because I did everything that I was supposed to do in a timely manner (I got my second shot back in January).
Today I was talking to the NP at the clinic and she said that it would be very silly if they won't allow me to finish the semester because some people simply don't convert the vaccine or have a weaker response than others.
I was wondering what the policy at your school is about titers. I'm doing some research in case my titers come back equivocal again. I feel like there is nothing else that I could have done differently. It's very frustrating because I waited two years to get in the program and I'm doing really well in my class.
