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CLINICAL SKILLS | CPD TRAINING
CPD Hours
16 Hours
Duration
2 Days
Dates (choose one)
22 Oct 2026 – 23 Oct 2026
14 Jan 2027 – 15 Jan 2027
Time
09:15 – 16:30
Platform
Online via Zoom
Suitable For
Nurses & ANPs
CPD Funding can be used for this course
Overview
The course is for professionally registered staff involved in childhood vaccinations.
The programme follows the current Public Health England Standards for Immunisation, Department of Health guidance on childhood immunisation and the Green Book.
Content
- Applied anatomy and physiology of the immune system
- Immunisation and how vaccines work
- National policy, the current UK childhood schedule and selected other countrys childhood schedules
- Unscheduled vaccinations
- Epidemiology – Notifications of Infectious Diseases (NOIDs) and Cover of Vaccination Evaluated Rapidly (COVER)
- Vaccine preventable disease
- Legal aspects of vaccination
- Vaccine storage and handling
- Administration technique – babies and children
- Anaphylaxis Update
- Communicating with parents
- Strategies for improving vaccine uptake
- Current issues related to vaccination
Aims & Outcomes
- Be able to provide accurate and up to date information about childhood diseases and vaccines
- Provide a safe, effective and high standard of care