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MissCommando | 12:28 Wed 09th Jun 2010 | Body & Soul
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I used to work in a care home for 18 months (all the residents suffered from dementia) and I didn't have the jabs. I always wore gloves whilst taking them to the toilet etc. A couple of the residents could be aggressive, but I always managed to move out of the way before being bitten or scratched.
Anyway, I am due to start working in another care home soon and think maybe I should have the jabs. How does it work? From what I understand, you have a jab and then you have to go back for a blood test to make sure you're immune? Thanks
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Basically it is 2or 3 injections....3 I think and then a blood test after 3 months to see if you have built up antibodies.
Always worth having if you are working in an area where you have any exposure to body fluids
rowan....;-)
It's a requirement of the job to have them isn't it? I work for a hospital and all clinical staff have to have the hep jabs and it's offered to all other staff as well. My dads a carer and I think it's obligatory there too. The Occy Health Dept usually sorts it all out when you start.... Mind you, this is off the top of my head!
No China. I worked in a hospital and I didn't have them.
Were you clinical? Just checked our policy and it's definitely obligatory here and HAS to be arranged by Occy Health, apparently they won't even accept a GP surgery doing it for you.
I was a psychiatric nursing assistant. I was offered them....couldn't make the dates and was never offered them again. So maybe it was just a sloppy.... but very expensive, hospital.
I did work with people with Hep B and Hep C
Aye, that wouldn't suprise me in the least <rolls eyes>

It's so dangerous, my secretary was a nurse but now a secretary as she caught one of the heps from a patient. Bad business.
I'm thinking about going back......I'll make sure I get them done if I do. One of the patients use to cut herself and attack the staff with her blood.
Sqad, you always assume I'm being smutty,,,in your mind not my thoughts
rowan...ME?....how dare you suggest such a thing madam?

.......bodily fluids...................!!
I was a nurse,remember If I wanted to be smutty I would have been, with knobs on ,,, I think you need the strict discipline ihreatened Vibes with in the sci fi thread not so long back. Dirty boy, clean my stilettoes with your tongue that sort of thing..
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Thanks Sqad :) 2 or 3 jabs! Blimey, 3 months is quite a while to wait. I think I will have it done though, better to be safe I suppose.
One of the care assistants had Hep B, I think it was B and not C anyway. She was a haemophiliac and contracted it many years ago from a blood transfusion :( The staff knew she had it, but I guess it was such a slim risk that the residents would 'catch' it from her.
ummm. . . that is terrible about attacking with the blood. I know people can't help it but I'd have been petrified.
On a separate note I must admit, I'm a bit apprehensive about starting at the new place as it's a mixture of male and female residents. The home I used to work in was just female residents.
These were forensic juveniles.....so much more calculated than those with dementia. This is a hospital that takes patients from Broadmoor....
You may find the male residents a nice change, I always liked them at the residential centre my ex husband ran,, they might be crotchety but were often great fun
you will have to pay for it to be done i'm afraid
We didn't bednobs.
That seems ridiculous to me that you would have to pay to immunize yourself from a disease you will come into contact with as part of your job. What sort of organization does that?
Like I said.....we didn't have to pay.

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