Continuing Education

Module 1: Vaccine Preventable Diseases

• Explain the historical impact of major infectious disease outbreaks.
• Identify major vaccine preventable diseases.
• Compare how Individual and Community Immunity differ.
• Recognize the implications of choosing not to be immunized.

Module 4: Nursing Roles

• Discuss nursing roles related to immunization: communicator, educator, advocate, coordinator of care
• Describe effective communication strategies with patients and families related to immunization
• Discuss the nurse's professional responsibility to maintain own immunizations

Module 2: Vaccine Recommendations

• Describe the development of vaccines. Differentiate types of vaccines.

• Discuss information on vaccines, including side effects and contraindications.
• Select recommended immunizations for children, adolescents and adults according to the CDC recommended immunization schedule.

Module 5: Vaccine Administration

• Identify elements of safe vaccine storage.
• Describe techniques that will assist in administering vaccines safely.
• Review vaccine administration routes and skills.
• Describe components of vaccine documentation.
• Differentiate between local and systemic reaction and how to respond.

Module 3: Vaccine Concerns

• Describe social factors that impact immunization.
• Discuss the public's current vaccine safety concerns.

• Explain barriers to immunization for the public.
• Identify two legal concerns about immunizations.
• Apply ethical principles to vaccine situations.

Module 6: Mass Immunization

• Describe the diseases that could initiate a mass immunization or prophylaxis response.
• Identify the process of a mass immunization event, from surveillance to follow-up.
• Explain the mass immunization/prophylaxis site command structure, functions and traffic flow.
• Discuss differences between mass immunization events.
• Examine the nursing roles within a mass immunization event