Abstract
A key component to protecting healthcare personnel (HCP) and their patients is HCP immunity to vaccine preventable diseases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and many professional organizations recommend that all HCPs have demonstrated immunity to mumps, measles, rubella, varicella, influenza, and pertussis. CDC recommends and the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires that HCP with potential exposure to blood or infectious body fluids be offered hepatitis B vaccine. Immunity can be provided by appropriate immunizations (mumps, measles, rubella [MMR]; varicella; influenza, pertussis [Tdap]) or depending on the disease by one or more of the following: a positive serology, physician diagnosed disease (laboratory confirmation may be required), or birth before 1957 (MMR). Persons providing vaccines to HCP should adhere to recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and the manufacturer’s package insert.
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