Annual Immunisation Update for HCSWs – Elearning

Description

This is an online Annual Immunisation Update training course for HCSWs (Health Care Support Workers) with written assessment. It has been developed in line with the ‘National Minimum Standards and Core Curriculum for Immunisation Training of Healthcare Support Workers‘ – PHE.

So who is it suitable for?

Above all, clinicians administering vaccines should undertake annual immunisation training to ensure they stay up to date in their practice. This course is therefore suitable for Occupational Health Clinicians, Immunisation Nurses, Practice Nurses, Pharmacists and any Healthcare Professionals administering vaccines.

So what’s included in this Annual Immunisation update for HCSWs online training course?

Firstly, this is an interactive, engaging, and comprehensive online course. We have therefore included all of the annual update modules recommended in the National Minimum Standards for Immunisation Training (PHE) document.

Annual Immunisation Update – Core Modules 

• Current issues in immunisation
• Recent epidemiology of vaccine preventable disease
• Any changes to vaccine recommendations or national policy
• Update on vaccine ordering, storage and administration
• Any changes to legislation relevant to vaccination
• Review of current practice, recent vaccine incidents and
  identification of areas for improvement
• Q&A session for problems encountered in practice

Disease/Vaccine Modules

• Shingles (Herpes zoster)
• Zostavax vaccine
• Shingrix vaccine
• Pneumococcal disease
• Prevenar 13 vaccine
• Pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV23)
• Vitamin B12 deficiency

Additional Vaccine Preventable Disease Options (firstly browse the headings below then choose from the add on options above)

Flu vaccines option:

• Includes All flu vaccines available in the UK
• Introduction to Seasonal Influenza
• The nature of Flu
• The UK Annual Flu Programme 2024/25
• Simple summaries

Covid-19 vaccine option:

• Includes all Covid-19 vaccines available in the UK
• Introduction to COVID-19
• The nature of COVID-19
• The UK COVID-19 vaccination programme

UK Immunisation Schedule vaccine option:

• Includes Diphtheria, Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib), Hepatitis B, Human papillomavirus – HPV (certain serotypes), Measles, Meningococcal disease (certain serogroups), Mumps, Pertussis (whooping cough), Pneumococcal disease (certain serotypes), Polio, Rotavirus, Rubella, Shingles, Tetanus

Assessment

• This Annual Immunisation update for HCSWs course is online therefore assessment is a written multiple choice assessment.

So what’s NOT included in this Annual Immunisation update for HCSWs online training course?

This is not an introduction to travel health course therefore if you want to start delivering a travel health service we recommend completing our comprehensive Fundamentals of Travel Health. This is also in line with Good Practice Guidance for Providing a Travel Health Service (RGPSG, 2020).

Adult and paediatric Basic Life support and Anaphylaxis Management are also available in separate courses.

Are there any other considerations with immunisation training?

Please also note that Public Health England recommend a period of supervised practice in addition to comprehensive foundations of immunisation training for new immunisers (PHE).