Vaccination Strategies and Promotion

Entrants to the course must provide evidence of a relevant professional role. Relevant roles would include:

• Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioners
• Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Health Workers 
• Indigenous Health Workers
• Allied Health Professionals
• Enrolled Nurses
• Midwives
• Nurse Practitioners
• Paramedics
• Other Health Professionals
• Registered Nurse
• Reception staff
• Practice Managers

Students engage in interactive group exercises, and the course concludes with presentations of innovative marketing or promotional campaigns.

Upon successful completion of the course students should have the ability to:

• Understand current vaccines available and eligibility
• Discuss the impact of disease and how this can impact communities and how clinics can improve this
• Understand vaccine hesitancy, fatigue and how to manage objections
• Establish which client visits best allow for opportunistic vaccination discussions
• Understand and promote eligible clients to undertake vaccination.

Full day face to face workshop.

There are no formal assessment requirements for this course. All activities are completed within the workshop.

The Vaccination Screening and Promotion Program is designed to build skills and knowledge on vaccine preventable disease and best practice in the delivery of vaccine programs. The program is underpinned by the National Immunisation Strategy and explores community impact and opportunities for improving disease prevention and vaccine uptake.

The program teaches a range of communication skills to engage with individuals around the importance of vaccines, how to undertake basic screening and managing vaccine hesitancy, vaccine fatigue and general patient objections. The program is underpinned by the new National Immunisation Strategy and explores community impact and opportunities for improving disease prevention and vaccine uptake.

Students enrolled in The Benchmarque Group courses should adhere to the following principles:

• Display a commitment to learning and to achieving success
• Be responsible and accountable for their own learning, behaviour and decisions
• Actively participate in all workshop activities and learning experiences
• Attend all scheduled sessions and be punctual at all times
• Complete all online assessments and workplace practice activities
• Work in harmony and respect the rights and opinions of staff and other students
• Treat others as they themselves would like to be treated
• Use acceptable language at all times.

This workshop is approximately 4 hours of active learning. The hours of active learning should act as a guide to CPD hours. It is the responsibility of the individual student to calculate how many hours of active learning they have completed. As a general guide, one hour of active learning equates to one hour of CPD.

There are no associated assessments with this program. All learning is completed in your workshop.

At the completion of the course, successful students will receive a Certificate of Attendance.