Vaccination 1 Day Refresher Training for Healthcare Professionals

Vaccination + Immunisation 1 Day Refresher

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Healthcare Professionals with the right Vaccination + Immunisation skills are still in critical demand. Learn to administer vaccinations with this 2-day foundation course.

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Who Is This Course For?

This Vaccination + Immunisation training is a refresher session for all healthcare workers with a professional registration, inclusive of, but not limited to: -

Nurses
Midwives
Health Visitors
Pharmacists
Physiotherapists
Occupational Therapists

Please Note - Delegates should have attended a 2-day foundation course or equivalent previous study, prior to attending this yearly update.

Why do you need this course?

Public Health England recommends those delivering vaccinations update their skills yearly.

Our Vaccination Training 1-day refresher course follows recommendations from The National Minimum Standards and Core Curriculum for Immunisation Training for Registered Healthcare Practitioners.

You will refresh your knowledge and practical skills needed to ensure safe vaccination delivery, recognise and manage anaphylaxis shock and perform basic life support.

Objectives

Update knowledge on national vaccine policies, schedules, legislation + guidance
Recap your responsibilities as a vaccination provider
Demonstrate the steps required prior to, during and post vaccination administration
Demonstrate how to administer vaccinations safely
Describe how to store and supply vaccinations
Refresh knowledge on Anaphylaxis awareness, treatment + Basic Life Support
Describe the supervisory role and how to successfully delegate
Demonstrate how to recognise and manage anaphylaxis
Demonstrate how to safely and effectively perform Basic Life Support
Describe effective communication methods with patients, parents and carers and other relevant people about immunisation
Demonstrate how to reconstitute and administer vaccines correctly

Course content

Course Introduction: 10:30 - 10:45 (15 minutes)

Session 1: 10:45 - 11:30 (45 minutes)

Changes to legislation relevant to vaccination
Current issues in vaccination
Record keeping
Accountability, supervision and delegation

Session 2: 11:30 - 12:15 (45 minutes)

Changes to National Immunisation Schedule
Recent epidemiology of vaccine preventable diseases

Session 3: 12:15 - 13:00 (45 minutes)

Review of vaccine types and compositions
Changes in contraindications and adverse events

Lunch break: 13:00 - 13:30 (30 minutes)

Session 4: 13:30 - 15:30 (120 minutes)

Review of current practice and identification of areas for improvement
Delegate assessments - Intramuscular and Subcutaneous Injections

Session 5: 15:30 - 16:45 (75 minutes)

Anaphylaxis recognition and management
Basic life support demonstration and practical assessment

Course summary: 16:45 - 17:00 (15 minutes)

Please note - morning and afternoon refreshment breaks will be given at a natural stopping point within a given session.

Benefits

Q + A session for commonly encountered problems in practice
All vaccination techniques (sub-cutaneous (SC) and Intra-Muscular (IM)) will be observed by a specialist trainer
Copy of the 'Immunisation against infectious diseases - the green book' provided to each delegate