Immunisation course

This course ensures that participants practice immunisation more effectively, from assessment to administration, and in both adults and children. It will enhance the care you are able to deliver by ensuring your skills and knowledge are developed and up to date.

This immunisation and vaccination training course will also introduce practitioners to additional information and research to inform their clinical practice.

Who is it for?

This course is for registered practitioners who are new to their role in delivering the UK national immunisation programme.

Timetable

This course runs over one full day.

Benefits

Completion of the one-day immunisation programme and the online modules will assist in meeting the standards for immunisation training for registered health care practitioners (PHE, 2018).

A certificate of attendance will be awarded upon completion of the course.

This one-day immunisation course covers the following crucial areas:

-immunity
-factors affecting sero-protection
-where to obtain contemporary information concerning immunisation
-vaccination of individuals with uncertain or incomplete immunisation status
-assessment, documentation and obtaining informed consent
-the national immunisation programme: composition and recent changes to the programme. The childhood immunisation programme will include vaccines such as -the BCG, the primary immunisation schedule (i.e. at two, three and four months), all routine vaccinations to preschool, the HPV programme the influenza programme and other immunisation programmes.

In addition to the above one-day course, practitioners will need to undertake the Health Education England e-Learning for Healthcare website modules

https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/immunisation/

This e-Learning for Healthcare website consists of seven knowledge sessions with accompanying assessments. It is recommended that those new to immunisation complete all seven sessions.

• The sessions cover:
• National immunisation policy and programmes
• Immunology
• Vaccine preventable diseases
• Communicating with patients and parents
• Legal aspects
• Vaccine storage
• Vaccine administration

It is mandatory to complete these modules to ensure that practitioners meet the national immunisation standards as explicated in the PHE/RCN (2018) document:

National Minimum Standards and Core Curriculum for Immunisation Training for Registered Healthcare Practitioners.

There is no formal assessment.

A certificate of attendance is awarded.

This course is provided by the School of Health & Psychological Sciences.

You must be a registered practitioner and new to your role in delivering the UK national immunisation programme to attend this course.

English requirements

You will need a good level of spoken and written English to enrol on this course.

All attendees are strongly recommended to access the department of health and social care website and ‘Immunisation Against Infectious Disease’, which has the most contemporary information concerning vaccines and vaccination procedures.

Immunisation Against Infectious Disease consists of two parts. Part 1 deals with the principles, practices and procedures relating to immunisation. All attendees irrespective of what part of the national immunisation programme they are involved in (i.e. whether in a clinical or health-promotional capacity) are advised to read all 12 chapters in Part 1.

Part 2 deals with the disease and vaccines and is in alphabetical order starting from the Anthrax chapter to the Yellow Fever chapter. Delegates are advised to read those chapters that are relevant to their clinical area.