This workshop provides essential training for Registered Healthcare Professionals involved in vaccination and immunisation. It is designed to promote patient safety and ensure that Health Professionals are equipped to confidently and competently administer the UK routine immunisation schedule to children and adults. Our approach to training include problem solving, discussing real life scenarios: it is very interactive and fun.

All the requirements outlined in the National Minimum Standards and Core Curriculum for Immunisation Training recommended by UK Health Security Agency (formerly Public Health England) and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is met by this workshop.

Course pre-requisite:

All participants must be a registered Healthcare Professional and be up to date with basic life support.

Before registering for this workshop participants must ensure they “have a supervisor in practice who is a Registered Health Professional (nurse or doctor) who will have professional responsibility for ensuring the health professional has met the necessary standards of competency”.

Course participants will also be expected to:

Attend the two-day workshop
Complete the Competency Framework – assessment tool
Administer thirty (30) vaccines under supervision on at least three(3) separate occasions

Course content:

• Vaccine preventable diseases
• The immune response / how vaccines work and types of vaccines
• Communicating with patients
• Legal aspects of vaccination including Consent: PSDs: PGDs
• Storage and handling of vaccines
• Correct administration of vaccines
• Communicating with patients
• Recognition and Management of Anaphylaxis and other adverse reactions
• Strategies for maximising vaccine uptake

A Certificate of Attendance will be issued on completion of the course

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