Imms
Immunizations
I have completed my assessment for immunisations in February 2012 and I can tell you I’ve come a long way since working with mentors Sarah, Veronica and Vicky. In the beginning it was a nerve wracking and very stressful experience administering these immunisations. I had to overcome wriggling babies, crying mothers and uncomfortable Dads; siblings who have launched themselves at me because they thought I was hurting their brother or sister; I have also had a challenging time immunizing triplets. However the most important aspect of the immunizations was understanding what to give and when to give it and more importantly who gets them. Record keeping namely electronic record keeping is also paramount especially when some parents are adverse to keeping any records of their own ie keep forgetting to bring the red book or outrightly just losing it. The issue of gaining consent is ever before me because of an incident involving MMR reported to me by Sarah. My practice is that I take the temperatures of all my clients due for childhood imms to establish a baseline. Also I have learned from my mentors not let myself be bullied by clients parents into giving the immunisations when there is clear evidence that the child has symptoms of a cold, runny nose or clearly looks unwell. I have also made it a practice of checking the vaccination fridge temperature and recording same whenever I’m on duty. I also do not prepare the vaccines before hand just in case the client is unable to receive the imms. Attendance at yearly updates is useful to help keep me up to date and make sure my practice is on level with research evidence and also to address any issues I may have out in
I have completed my assessment for immunisations in February 2012 and I can tell you I’ve come a long way since working with mentors Sarah, Veronica and Vicky. In the beginning it was a nerve wracking and very stressful experience administering these immunisations. I had to overcome wriggling babies, crying mothers and uncomfortable Dads; siblings who have launched themselves at me because they thought I was hurting their brother or sister; I have also had a challenging time immunizing triplets. However the most important aspect of the immunizations was understanding what to give and when to give it and more importantly who gets them. Record keeping namely electronic record keeping is also paramount especially when some parents are adverse to keeping any records of their own ie keep forgetting to bring the red book or outrightly just losing it. The issue of gaining consent is ever before me because of an incident involving MMR reported to me by Sarah. My practice is that I take the temperatures of all my clients due for childhood imms to establish a baseline. Also I have learned from my mentors not let myself be bullied by clients parents into giving the immunisations when there is clear evidence that the child has symptoms of a cold, runny nose or clearly looks unwell. I have also made it a practice of checking the vaccination fridge temperature and recording same whenever I’m on duty. I also do not prepare the vaccines before hand just in case the client is unable to receive the imms. Attendance at yearly updates is useful to help keep me up to date and make sure my practice is on level with research evidence and also to address any issues I may have out in