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Influenza vaccination

Rosemary Cook Manager, Manchester Multidisciplinary Audit and Quality Group, Manchester

The availability of influenza vaccines brings relief to high-risk categories. For trained and competent nurses this means carrying out an audit of high-risk people and ordering sufficient doses in the spring and summer, and then administering vaccines to this group in the autumn

Aims and intended learning outcomes The aim of this article is to review the need for, and administration of, the influenza vaccine, as well as the role of the nurse in identifying key target groups in need of immunisation against influenza. After reading this article you should be able to:

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Understand the difference between active and passive immunity

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Identify the key target groups for influenza vaccination

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Describe the nature and presentation of the influenza vaccine

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Discuss the professional issues pertaining to immunisation against influenza

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Identify key elements of the nurse’s role in influenza immunisation programmes.

Nursing Standard. 12, 1, 49-56. doi: 10.7748/ns.12.1.49.s55

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24 September 1997 / Vol 12 issue 1

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