Safe Vaccine Administration : Practical Guidelines for and by Nurses and Midwives

This book equips nurses and midwives with a role in providing vaccination services in the UK with the information they need to practice safely and effectively. This includes ensuring they are equipped to answer questions as they arise. 
Starting with the importance of vaccination for public health, the book takes a vaccination through the life course approach from pregnancy, babies and childhood, teenagers, adults to older people discussing some of the key challenges and issues with the different vaccine programmes.
The book provides readers with the best practice guidance to offer a safe effective and quality service. To maximise the uptake of vaccination across the population, it offers guidance on how to ensure vaccination is offered to and accessible to all those who are eligible.
Information is offered on how to address parents’ and patients’ questions and concerns effectively, to ensure they are provided with the evidence-based information they need to make an informed decision about vaccination and be able to give informed consent. 
This book also provides technical information on vaccine preparation, injection techniques and how to minimise the pain and distress of vaccination; it also provides clinical management support for patient observation after vaccination. 
Each chapter is written by nurses and midwives expert in immunisation and vaccine administration, with contributions from physicians, legal and pharmacy professionals where relevant.

Helen Donovan is a Specialist Nurse in Immunisation and Health Protection, she currently works as an independent nurse consultant delivering education on vaccination and advising on policy and more widely on public health. She has had a varied career across general nursing, midwifery, practice nursing, health visiting and specialist health protection, she has a special interest in immunisation and vaccination. She is a senior lecturer at the university of Hertfordshire, delivering vaccination courses and was the Professional Lead for public health nursing at the Royal College of Nursing (UK). 

Helen Bedford is Professor of Children’s Health at University College London’s Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health and has a background in health visiting. Helen’s role at UCL includes child public health research particularly into childhood vaccine uptake, and teaching. In her research she has looked at the factors which determine whether children are immunised as well as parents’ and health professionals’ attitudes and knowledge to immunisation. This research has influenced policy and practice. Helen lectures on immunisation to a wide range of audiences including primary health care staff.