Objectives
a. Identify vaccine-preventable diseases for which vaccines are included in the ACIP Recommended Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule for ages 18 years or younger.
b. Identify vaccine-preventable diseases for which vaccines are included in the ACIP Recommended Adult Immunization Schedule for Adults Ages 19 years or older.
c. Identify the diseases prevented by travel vaccines.
d. Describe the etiologic agent, pathogenesis, signs and symptoms, appropriate infection control and prevention (e.g., standard, droplet, airborne and contact precaution), and epidemiology of vaccine-preventable diseases.
e. Explain the nurse’s role in vaccine-preventable disease surveillance.
f. Describe nursing roles related to vaccine-preventable diseases: advocate, educator, lifelong learner, and reporter.
b. Identify vaccine-preventable diseases for which vaccines are included in the ACIP Recommended Adult Immunization Schedule for Adults Ages 19 years or older.
c. Identify the diseases prevented by travel vaccines.
d. Describe the etiologic agent, pathogenesis, signs and symptoms, appropriate infection control and prevention (e.g., standard, droplet, airborne and contact precaution), and epidemiology of vaccine-preventable diseases.
e. Explain the nurse’s role in vaccine-preventable disease surveillance.
f. Describe nursing roles related to vaccine-preventable diseases: advocate, educator, lifelong learner, and reporter.
Resources
Web pages
CDC Travelers’ Health
CDC Vaccines and Immunizations
Immunization Action Coalition (IAC)–A Photo Collection of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
Vaccinate Your Family: The Next Generation of Every Child by Two (EBCT) vaccinateyourfamily.org
Voices for Vaccines–Vaccines
- Travel vaccine requirements and recommendations
wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/destinations/list - Yellow Book home page
wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/page/yellowbook-home
CDC Vaccines and Immunizations
- Recommended Immunization Schedule for Adults Aged 19 Years or Older www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/adult.html
- Recommended Immunization Schedule for Children and Adolescents Aged 18 Years or Younger www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/child-adolescent.html
Immunization Action Coalition (IAC)–A Photo Collection of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases
Vaccinate Your Family: The Next Generation of Every Child by Two (EBCT) vaccinateyourfamily.org
Voices for Vaccines–Vaccines
learning modules
CDC Vaccines and Immunizations
- Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (Pink Book) webinar series–(specific vaccine- preventable diseases) www.cdc.gov/vaccines/ed/webinar-epv/index.html
- You Call the Shots–Various modules www.cdc.gov/vaccines/ed/youcalltheshots.html
- Nursing Initiative Promoting Immunization Training (NIP-IT) Module 1: Vaccine Preventable Diseases-Childhood and Adult nip-it.org/vaccine_preventable_diseases.as
books
- American Academy of Pediatrics. Summaries of Infectious Diseases. In: Kimberlin DW, Brady MT, Jackson MA, Long SS, eds. Red Book: 2018 Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases, 31st ed. Itasca, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics; 2018:1-111.
- CDC. Hamborsky J, Kroger A, Wolfe S, eds. Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases, 13th ed. (Chapters 7–22). Washington, DC: Public Health Foundation; 2015. Available at www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/index.html
- CDC. Manual for the Surveillance of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases (Chapters 1–23). Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 2008. Available at http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/surv-manual/index.html.
- Farrell M. Global Health and International Community Health Nursing. In: Allender J, Rector C, Warner K, eds. Community and Public Health Nursing: Promoting the Public’s Health, 8th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2013: 497-536.
- Fraser, D. Health Problems of Infants. In: Hockenberry MJ, Wilson D, Rodgers CC, eds. Wong’s Essentials of Pediatric Nursing, 9th ed. St. Louis, MO: Elsevier Health Sciences; 2012:228-307.
- Lewis SL, Dirksen SR, Heitkemper MM, Bucher L. Medical-Surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems, 9th ed. St. Louis, MO: Elsevier Mosby, 2014.
- Marshall G. The Vaccine Handbook: A Practical Guide for Clinicians, 5th ed. West Islip, NY: Professional Communications, Inc.; 2015.
- Ricci SS. Sexually Transmitted Infections. In: Ricci SS. Essentials of Maternity, Newborn, and Women’s Health Nursing, 4th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2017:143-182.
- Rodgers, CC. Health Promotion of the School Age Child and Family. In: Hockenberry MJ, Wilson D, Rodgers CC, eds. Wong’s Essentials of Pediatric Nursing, 9th ed. St. Louis, MO: Elsevier, Inc.; 2012:458-475.
