Nursing practices in vaccination: An integrative review

Fagundes, Luís Gustavo da Silva; Frota, Oleci Pereira; Silva, Eliete Maria

doi:10.5430/jnep.v8n8p128

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“…In this study, nurses identified a need for ongoing continuing education to support their vaccine competency. The importance of this need, relative to protecting populations from vaccinepreventable disease, is supported by others (da Silva Fagundes, Frota, & Silva, 2018;Public Health Agency of Canada, 2008). Multiple accessible and often cost-free resources exist to assist nurses in addressing the concerns identified by parent in this study, including the safety and efficacy of immunizing agents.…”

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Parents’ Experiences and Nurses’ Perceptions of Decision-Making About Childhood Immunization

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Background Immunization in Canada is recommended not mandated, granting parents discretionary decision-making power regarding their child’s immunization status. Uptake of childhood immunization at present falls below national targets. Nurses who interact with parents in the clinical setting may witness parents’ decision-making experiences, attitudes, and opinions inclusive of vaccine hesitancy. Purpose The aim of this study is to understand parents’ and nurses’ experiences of decision-making about childhood immunization, specifically measles-mumps-rubella and/or diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis. Methods Thorne’s interpretative description approach was used to understand parents’ and nurses’ experiences and perspectives about immunization. The sample was 6 nurses and 16 parents residing in northeastern Ontario. Results Common to all participants was the goal of protection. Motivated by child protection, parents carried out three broad actions, searching for information, deliberating the information and sources to determine the relative benefits and risks of immunization, and bearing responsibility for their decision to accept, delay, or decline immunization. Nurses were motivated by child protection and population health. Conclusion Implications for nursing included integration of immunization competencies in nursing curricula, ongoing professional development, validation of parental actions for child protection, nurse-led education sessions, and engaging parents through social media to support access to reputable information.

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Parents’ Experiences and Nurses’ Perceptions of Decision-Making About Childhood Immunization

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“…According to Riccò et al 6 filling these knowledge gaps among the HCWs require a continuous medical education. Da Silva Fagundes et al 7 highlighted the importance of education in order to overcome the immunization related knowledge gaps. In Canada, the evaluation of the contents of the guidelines of national curriculum for the training on immunization was carried out in a national study.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Public health nurses have a central role in promoting, delivering, and evaluating vaccine programs worldwide. 7 Lack of immunization knowledge of nurses contributes to lack of confidence level of vaccination efficacy, fears of associated complications, and vaccination contraindications, which will all result in low vaccine coverage among the entire population, including public health care providers. 6 Moreover, positive attitudes of nurses are associated with the level of vaccination knowledge.…”

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Assessing Primary Health Care Nurses’ Knowledge toward Immunizations: A Quantitative Study

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Johnson

Munir

et al. 2020

Journal of Public Health Research

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Background: The current nursing workforce needs to be skilled, confident, and competent to address the rapid change in Primary Health Care services, to align with the National Vision of Qatar. This is emphasized in the Primary Health Care Strategy 2018-2023. This strategy outlines the need of having a skilled nursing workforce to administer and educate the public about the importance of immunizations. Primary Health Care nurses emanate from several nationalities and hence possess various level of knowledge and background related to immunization administration. Design and methods: To assess Primary Health Care nurses’ knowledge before and after the delivered immunization education program in Qatar. The study was part of a Sequential mixed method research study that aimed to assess the Primary Health Care nurses’ knowledge, attitude, and practice of nurses before and after the conducted training program. A self-administered survey, specifically developed for the research project was loaded in Qualtrics and sent to participants of the immunization education program before and after training. Participants were trained in two cohorts from October to December, 2018 in Qatar. For the purposes of this paper, data about the immunization knowledge was statistically analyzed using the SPSS Software version 25 and Microsoft Excel.Results: Specific areas were identified as knowledge gaps among the participants of the two cohorts. Moreover, the developed education program showed overall improvement in the participants’ knowledge.Conclusions: The study results have demonstrated that the delivered immunization education program significantly increases the participants’ knowledge about immunization in certain areas of the primary healthcare clinics they work, including vaccine safety, efficiency, and contraindications in the delivery of vaccines to the public.

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“…Roles have expanded to include initiatives related to public health campaigns, and an advanced knowledge of communicable diseases. [13] An integrative review conducted by Fagundas et al, [14] which looked at nursing practices related to vaccines. They found that the role of the nurse is a key element in pulling together interprofessional teams to contribute to primary goals of primary healthcare.…”

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“…They found that the role of the nurse is a key element in pulling together interprofessional teams to contribute to primary goals of primary healthcare. [14] They also found that practice was "impacted through continuing education of nursing staff to plan strategies to reach the goals of vaccination" (p. 128). Thus, it is necessary to provide continuing education to nurses as well as other healthcare clinicians so that practices remain relevant and up to date.…”

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Assessing knowledge, attitude and practice of nurses after a continuing professional development program: A qualitative study

Johnson

Masaba

Munir

et al. 2020

IJH

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Background: Nurses play a crucial role in the prevention of communicable diseases through the public health immunization programs. Knowledge, attitude and practices of health care providers have significant impact on the vaccine administration and education of adults and parents of children.Objective: The present qualitative study aims to explore the knowledge, attitude and practices of nurses in Qatar before and after the delivery of the immunization-related continuous professional development program. Methods: 10 out of 125 nurses who have completed the training program volunteered to participate in the face-to-face interviews. Data was then collected, transcribed and analysed by the researcher team members. Results: Themes identified from this study: Empowerment, advancing practice and continuing education. Participants felt more confident and had a sense of fulfilment on completion of the education program. Practicing evidenced based skills and methods achieved an outcome of better quality of care, which can directly affect practice. Participants also felt that continuing education allows them to become self-motivated to keep up with new and emerging knowledge. Taken together, our data revealed that continuing professional education immunization-training program was successful in improving the knowledge, attitude and practices of the participants. Conclusions: Continued education beyond traditional baccalaureate nursing programs in order to ensure nurses possess the knowledge to safely handle, teach and administer vaccines is needed.

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Nursing practices in vaccination: An integrative review

Cited by 5 publications

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Parents’ Experiences and Nurses’ Perceptions of Decision-Making About Childhood Immunization

Parents’ Experiences and Nurses’ Perceptions of Decision-Making About Childhood Immunization

Assessing Primary Health Care Nurses’ Knowledge toward Immunizations: A Quantitative Study

Assessing knowledge, attitude and practice of nurses after a continuing professional development program: A qualitative study

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