TB Test Question?

Oops! Sorry I guess I meant to say if it was common practice to have the second shot administered on the day of the first reading? It just didn't seem common...perhaps I should speak to the nurse about it.

look up the guidelines on the CDC website

There are two different ways of doing it - the 4-visit process and the 3-visit process. It appears that your facility does the 4-visit - injection and reading on day 2-3, then second injection around day 7 and reading 2-3 days later.

There are two different ways of doing it - the 4-visit process and the 3-visit process. It appears that your facility does the 4-visit - injection and reading on day 2-3, then second injection around day 7 and reading 2-3 days later.

Hello,

The 4-visit process would mean that the second injection would be administered around 5 days following the first reading right?

The nurse actually told me she would administer the second injection on day 3 (day 1 = first shot, day 3 = first reading = second injection), so I found this quite unusual. It seems much more common for the second shot to be administered 1 week~2weeks following the first injection. I will be speaking to her again tomorrow or the following day when I go in for my first reading, and I am thinking of asking her to administer the second shot a week later (because it seems very uncommon for the second injection to be administered only 2 days following the first injection).

I don't necessarily mind getting the second injection on day 3, but what I'm concerned about is that the place I am planning on working at will not accept this since I have to indicate the days when the injections were administered.

Follow whatever rules your work/school wants! Don't mess yourself up. Not worth the aggravation! Just make sure you know what they want.