Description
Thursday 9th & Friday 10th May
at Sunderland BIC
Duration: 2 days: Time:09:30 – 4:30pm
Cost: £299. Includes Certificates and light refreshments
Course overview
This workshop provides essential information for all Registered Healthcare Practitioners working in any setting managing or administering vaccines . As some individuals delay and/or hesitate in their decision regarding vaccination, questioning the safety and efficacy of the vaccines; health professionals must be equipped with the knowledge and skills to confidently and competently; promote and administer vaccines.
Who is the Course for?
Registered Healthcare Practitioners involved in immunisation in any context whether managing, advising or administering vaccines including:
- Community Nurses
- Practice Nurses
- Health Visitors
- Midwives
- School Nurses
- District Nurses
- Paediatric and A&E Nurses
- Pharmacists
- Occupational Health Nurses
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 /pharmacist/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
The aims and objectives of the workshop are
To ensure:
- patient safety
- those who immunise are competent to do so
- health professionals provide a high standard of care
Course content includes:
- Aims of immunisation: national policy and schedules
- The immune response/ how vaccines work and types of vaccines
- Communicating with patients about vaccines
- Legal aspects of vaccination
- Storage and handling of vaccines
- Correct administration of vaccines
- Documentation, record keeping and reporting
- Management of anaphylaxis and other adverse events
- Strategies for improving immunisation uptake rates
Assessment
- Pre- course quiz
- Post course quiz
- Competence Assessment Tool (completed during a period of supervised practice to allow for acquisition of clinical skills and supervisor observation of application of knowledge to practice as recommended by the RCN)
