Once admitted to the RN Program, students will meet with a Nursing Resource Lab (NRL) assistant to discuss health requirements. Students must be up to date with all health requirements in order to progress to the next semester. 

• COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Vaccine
  
  
• American Heart Association (AHA) Basic Life Support (BLS Provider) Card
  
  
• Los Angeles County Fire Card (must be blue card)
  
  
• All items below must be completed within 4 months before start of clinical rotation. 
  • Physical Examination
    Give physical examination form to your health care provider (HCP).
  • Complete Blood Count (CBC) 
    Blood test
  • Urinalysis (UA) 
    Urine sample
    
    
• Annual Seasonal Influenza (Flu) Vaccination
  
  
• Tetanus, Diptheria and Pertusis (TDaP) Immunization
  Get a one-time dose of TDaP as soon as possible if you have not received TDaP previously (regardless of when previous dose of Td was received). Get either a Td or Tdap booster shot every 10 years thereafter. 
  
  
• Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR)
  Documentation of two (2) vaccines at least 28 days apart. If you have not had the MMR vaccine, or if you don’t have a blood test that shows you are immune to measles or mumps (i.e., no serologic evidence of immunity or prior vaccination), get 2 doses of
  MMR (1 dose now and the 2nd dose at least 28 days later).
  
  AND Measles, Mumps, Rubella (MMR) - Titer
  Documented serological immunity at least 28 days AFTER receiving 2nd MMR vaccine
  
  
• Varicella (VZV) 
  Documentation of two (2) vaccines at least 28 days apart. If you have not had the VZV vaccine, or if you don’t have a blood test that shows you are immune to varicella (i.e., no
  serologic evidence of immunity or prior vaccination), get 2 doses of VZV (1 dose now and the 2nd dose at least 28 days later).
  AND Varicella (VZV) - Titer
  Documented serological immunity at least one month AFTER receiving 2nd VZV vaccine
  
  
• Hepatitis B (Hep B) - Documentation of Hep B Series 
  If you do not have documented evidence of a complete HepB vaccine series, or if you do not have a blood test that shows you are immune to hepatitis B (i.e., no serologic evidence of immunity or prior vaccination) then you should get a 3-dose series of Recombivax HB or Engerix-B (dose #1 now, dose #2 in 1 month, and dose #3 approximately 5 months after #2) or a 2-dose series of Heplisav-B, with each of the doses separated by at least 4 weeks.
  AND Hepatitis B Surface Antibody, (Hep Bs Ab) Titer, Quantitative
  Documented anti-HBS serological immunity at least one month AFTER receiving last vaccine
  
  
• TB Testing (PPD) Screening Requirements
  Documentation of two (2) negative tuberculosis skin tests (TST) in millimeters.
  • Get 1st TB skin test
  • Get 2nd TB skin test (this 2nd TB skin test reading must be within the window of one to three (3) weeks after the 1st TB skin test negative reading)

  OR
  Documentation of one (1) negative Interferon-Gamma Release Assays (IGRAs)

  *** If known positive (+) result or received treatment for latent/active TB infection/disease:
  Documentation of one (1) positive TST in millimeters (any time period) AND a Negative (-) Chest Xray result AFTER the TST
  OR
  Documentation of one (1) positive Interferon-Gamma Release Assays (IGRAs) (any time period)
  AND Negative (-) Chest X-ray result AFTER the positive IGRA