EDAPT IMMUNIZATIONS PROGRAMS LATEST UPDATE
The nurse is preparing to administer a vaccine to a client. For which allergy should the nurse check before
injecting the vaccine?
EGGS
Contraindications to the administration of immunizing drugs include allergy to the immunization itself or
allergy to any of its components, such as eggs or yeast.
A nurse is preparing to administer a vaccine to a client. What is the priority nursing assessment to monitor
for when administering vaccinations?
Anaphylaxis is a potential life-threatening adverse reaction to vaccines. Pain and myalgias can occur but are
not life-threatening.
Which example best represents effective primary prevention?
Immunizations are a type of primary prevention.
Health screenings, self-breast or testicular exams, and following up on any positive screening tests are all
examples of secondary prevention measures.
Universal vaccination is a critical part of quality healthcare and should be accomplished through routine and
catch-up vaccinations provided in physicians’ offices, public health clinics, and other appropriate settings. In
the United States, vaccination is considered primarily the responsibility of individual healthcare providers and
healthcare systems serving patients. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends
routine vaccination to prevent 17 vaccine-preventable diseases that occur in infants, children, adolescents, or
adults.
The terms vaccination and immunization are often used interchangeably; however, they mean different
things.
Vaccination, or inoculation, is the administration of a vaccine into a person to stimulate an individual’s
immune system to develop immunity to a pathogen. In other words, vaccination is the physical act of getting
or giving an injection.
Immunization is the process whereby a person is made immune or resistant to an infectious disease (typically
by the administration of a vaccine).
Immunization programs provide a set of services that ensure immunity to vaccine-preventable diseases,
including documenting evidence of immunity, administering immunizations and re-immunizations, and recordkeeping and reporting to state or local immunization information systems (IIS), also known as vaccine
registries.