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 
• Allied Health Professionals
• Enrolled Nurses
• Midwives
• Nurse Practitioners
• Paramedics
• Other Health Professionals
• Registered Nurses.

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:

• Identify Pneumococcal, current vaccines available, dosing, timetables and co-administration.
• Discuss the burden of disease and how this can impact your community and how your clinic can improve this.
• Establish which client visits best allow for opportunistic vaccination discussions.
• Determine from practice software or the Australian Immunisation register extraction tools, clients eligible for Pneumococcal vaccines.
• Produce a promotional or marketing strategy to increase the uptake of clients receiving the Pneumococcal Vaccine.

Half day face to face workshop.

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

Vaccination Strategies and Promotion is a half day workshop that builds knowledge on vaccination practices and developing comprehensive health protection for patients. This includes pneumococcal disease and vaccine protection, dosing schedules, and development of community impact from the strategies learned toward disease prevention and health protection. This course explores opportunistic conversations for vaccine discussion, explores the use of practice software and other extraction tools to identify patient eligibility, and design effective local strategies to boost vaccination update. This course is a face-to-face workshop with hands-on learning and networking opportunity to share and learn with real-world case examples.

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.