Do you have to get immunizations to volunteer in a hospital?
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Yes.  Just ask the volunteer group you are working with to get you a list of what you should get.  Usually its stuff like Hep A, Tetanus, Flu, and Pneumonia.  They will also want to do a TB test.
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No you don't need another one, once you've got antibodies against Rubella you always have them.  if you're concerned thoough you can ask you doctor to do a blood test to screen for the antibodies, then you'll know for sure whether or not you'd need the vaccination.
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Most senior citizen facilities and nursing homes welcome volunteers! Although it would be great to have some basic skills like CPR, there are people on the staff for these things. Simply go down to the facility or call and let them know you are interested in volunteering. Make sure that you keep the hours that you commit to. You might ask your supervisors for a recommendation in the future and any volunteer work is always a great resume booster.
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Your vaccination should protect you for 10 years. Since you received your vaccination 6 years ago you should be fine. Just stay up to date with your immunizations and that should take care of it. They have these shots to protect you before you have a problem. If you are not comfortable, go see your doctor and have him/her check it out.
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depends which hospital. Go to the hospital website. There is probably a job or volunteer link you can click on to find a job you want
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your job can be in jeopardy if you refuse to follow a reasonable instruction. it may depend on why you didn't go in. were you sick, did you not have childcare available, was there a sale at the mall you wanted to go to, were you just lazy? they would probably pay you overtime or give you an alternate day off. the patients are their primary concern. if they feel you are not a team player and that you don't care for the health and safety of the residents, they may decide they don't want you working there.
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If you are planning on attending medical school it is definitely a good idea to volunteer in a hospital or any other medical setting.  Medical schools look very highly upon volunteer work or other medical experience when accepting candidates.  \n\nUpon high school graduation, if you are going to college far away and so will not be volunteering at the same hospital, make sure to get letters of recommendation from your supervisors.  Also, document all your volunteer time, even if all you do is write down the dates and hours of your service.  Don't stop volunteering once you get to college, med schools will consider recent experience even more important.\n\nSince you know what you want to do already, you might consider an accelerated medical school program like BU's 7 year medical program (link: http://www.bu.edu/cas/academics/programs/medical.html ).  This will enable you to cut a year or two off your studies and will relieve you off the stress of applying for medical school after your third year of college.\n\nThere are a couple other programs as well at other medical schools, but I don't remember which schools they are.\n\nCheck out http://www.studentdoctor.net for tons of information and posts from other pre-medical students.\n\nGood luck! :)
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Take vitals, dign in patients, prepare rooms, clean rooms/instruments. Restock medecines, answer phones, doctors assistant. Pretty much everything, depending on the doctor if they train you to they also let you give shots. Call in presecriptions, ahndle patient folders (confidential information). Write perscriptions with the doctors signature. Hope that helps.
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Hi! When a a disease is reported to the health department, it comes to ... ME! Here's what happens: \n\nWe receive a Confidential Morbidity Report (CMR)from either a lab, a hospital, private physician, veterinarian, etc. They either call us, fax us or mail us depending on the disease. Where i am, there are 85 reportables.\n\nWhen I get the CMR, I call the doctor to verify. We discuss whether the person is really sick or not (often we get false reports, usually lab results). Then I request documents (history/physical, ID consult, discharge summary) to examine the patient's history. My boss (who is a doctor, whereas I am en epidemiologist) and I talk about the patient.\n\nThen with my boss' green light, I sign a paper that says "Yes, this person is a case of _______ disease." Then the patient becomes a statistic in our computer. We do not release any of this info to the outside world. If I did, I'd be out of a job!\n\nSometimes, I have to call the patient. For example, when we do surveillance for brucellosis (a bioterrorism reportable), I need to ask the patient about travel and the foods they ate (common risk factors for the disease). The patient usually freaks out. Then I spend 15 minutes on the phone calming him/her down and assuring them I'm not going to arrest them or have them quarantined. I spend my 10 mintues asking questions off a report form. Then I hang up and get a cup of tea to calm myself down after getting yelled at by the patient (I'm small, cute and harmless -- why y'all yelling at me???).\n\nWhen I have my info together, I assemble a short report and sign it off. No names are used, and the documents i have get shredded.\n\nSo yeah, if you're worried about your hepatitis being reported, don't fret. We'll only keep you off work if you are a contagious hazard (like typhoid in food handlers). Otherwise, you are just another statistic in my computer, or a piece of paper in my inbox.
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Try the link below.  You can also search Google using "standard practices in the hospitals for staff and patients to prevent infection".  You will get this link as well as some specifically geared towards flu protection.
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No. I used to work at the Red Cross. You have to wait 3 full days until symptoms have passed; then you can donate.\nANY contagious illness temporarily disqualifies you.
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Try to get a vaccine, I think flu shots are still available at Walgreens.
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Go to a community health center.
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I would imagine you would apply for a job in a hospital
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If your mother already had chicken pox, then you visiting isn't a problem.  If she hasn't, yes, you could feasibly pass it on through close contact.  Regardless, when you do visit, wash your hands thoroughly prior to entering her room, and avoid close contact if possible.\n\nAlso, do not bring your son anywhere near the hospital.  Regardless of your mother's condition, he could make other patients, staff, and/or visitors very ill.
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They will take your blood and most likely you'll get shots. It's about time for your tetanus booster for starters.  They will give u any other shots u have missed or are due for.
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As soon is as legally allowed..........I live 2 miles from the Mexican border in Texas.  People come over, kids or not, and they have never been vaccinated for many of the diseases that we take for granted(whooping cough, measels, mumps, POLIO, TUBERCULOSIS).  We take these diseases for granted because we as a society don't see them as a wide spread problem...but they are.  Working in a South Texas School District, a person has to have a TB test every 6 months.  Why? because the diseace can mutate with every antibiotic that is not taken correctly.  GET YOUR SHOT!!!!!