Immunisation Foundation for Healthcare Assistants and Assistant Practitioners - 17th and 24th January 2025, 09:30 to 13:00 on both dates.
Delegates must attend both dates to complete the course.
With Specialist Immunisation Educators Tricia Smith and Emma Edwards.
This course is suitable for Healthcare Assistants and Assistant Practitioners only.
This course meets the national minimum standards for immunisation training
Course content will include
- Immunity and the different types of vaccine and how they work
- Legal aspects of vaccination, including delegation, consent and patient specific directions
- Epidemiology of influenza, pneumococcal and shingles diseases.
- Influenza, COVID, pneumococcal and shingles programmes for 2025 and respiratory
syncytial virus programmes for 2025/26.
- The importance of the cold chain
- The
correction administration of vaccination
- How
to recognise anaphylaxis
This course is being run as an online training course. Details of how to
join the meeting will be emailed to you closer to the event.
All
delegates are required to complete a workbook prior to each taught
session.
At the
end of the course there will be a final assessment. Further information will be
sent out prior to the start of the course. Please allow at least an hour after the final teaching session to complete the online assessment.
These
are interactive teaching sessions and it is expected that delegates will be
in a quiet environment in which they can use a camera and a microphone to
communicate with the rest of the group. Inability to communicate with
others during the sessions may lead to the course not being successfully
completed.
If you no longer require your place on this course place cancel it so that there is availability for other delegates. To cancel a booking please log into your Learning and Development Centre account, go to the Centre course list and click on the orange box next to the course name.
All
delegates must have their own booking made through the Learning and Development Centre
website to join the meeting. The name on your Zoom account should be
recognisable as the name on your booking. If we cannot identify
delegates they may not be admitted to the session, or certificates may not be
issued after the event.
If you have any questions please contact our team: [email protected]
