1. Childhood Vaccinations
Birth - 6 Years
By: Raven Wright, Jerrica Cashaw, Qunisha Crawford, Katie Kirchner, Marisela Lopez, Greg Janzen, and Joanie Chan

2. Healthcare Issue?
“Vaccination has greatly reduced the burden of infectious diseases. Only clean water, also considered to be a basic human right, performs better.” (WHO, 2008)
Many parents are against immunizing their children out of fear of adverse effects.
The goal of this project is to educate parents and achieve 100% childhood vaccination rates in the United States.

3. Learning Outcomes
Parents will demonstrate understanding of the importance of vaccinations by verbalizing that vaccinations can prevent disease and that vaccines are not harmful
Parents will demonstrate understanding of vaccination schedules by verbalizing next vaccination date and where to find child vaccination schedule
Parents will verbalize an understanding of the vaccine use, and common adverse effects to look for post administration
Parents will demonstrate understanding of the importance of herd immunity by explaining what herd immunity is and how it is important to the population

4. Misconceptions about Vaccinations
“Vaccines cause autism”
“Vaccines cause serious side effects and may even contribute to the disease in which it is meant to prevent”
“Vaccinations can overload the immune system”
“Immunity from infection is ‘better’ than immunity from vaccination”
“My child doesn’t need vaccinations, vaccine preventable diseases have already been eliminated”
“Vaccines may cause harmful side effects, illnesses, death, and unknown long term effects”
“Vaccines are just for profit”

5. Why Are Childhood Vaccines so Important?
It is always better to prevent a disease than to treat it after it occurs.
Diseases that used to be common in this country and around the world, including polio, measles, diphtheria, pertussis (whooping cough), rubella (German measles), mumps, tetanus, and rotavirus can now be prevented by vaccination.
Thanks to vaccines, one of the most terrible diseases in history – smallpox – no longer exists outside the laboratory. Over the years, vaccines have prevented countless cases of disease and saved millions of lives.

6. What is Herd Immunity?
Spread of contagious disease is contained by a majority of the population being immunized.

7. Recommended Vaccinations for Children (0-6)
DTaP -- Diphtheria, Tetanus, and Pertussis
MMR -- Measles, Mumps, and Rubella
Chickenpox
Hib -- Haemophilus influenza type b
Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B
Influenza
Polio
Pneumococcal
Rotavirus
Immunizations lead to an increase in life expectancy, largely due to child survival rates and the current 17 vaccine-preventable diseases across the lifespan (Healthypeople2020, 2015).

8. When explaining this slide, say “more of this [referring to the immunization schedule] will be explained later on in our skit”

9. Adverse Effects Related to Vaccinations
Pain, tenderness, redness, swelling at the injection site
Fatigue
Headache
Itching at the injection site
Nausea
Fever
Mild rash

10. Understanding Vaccinations Video
Do skit after this slide

11. Teaching Method Assess parents for learning strengths and deficits
Provide parents with vaccination schedule (developmental stages)
(English)
(Spanish)
Provide handouts about the spread of communicable diseases, that may occur, if specific vaccinations are not given
Encourage parents to teach back what they have learned
Provide additional resources
Vaccines on the GO: What You Should Know
Display on screen when this is being presented in the skit
Teach Back method
Provide parents with vaccination schedule (developmental stages)
(CDC) schedules also available in spanish (2nd link):
Provide handouts about the spread of communicable diseases, that may occur, if specific vaccinations are not given.
Vaccines on the GO: What You Should Know app (free)
A free app that can be used by parents that provides reliable information in relation to the importance of vaccines, safety, science, and diseases vaccines can prevent.

12. Questions What are the risks of not vaccinating children?
What are the possible side effects of vaccinations?
How can you as future nurses educate parents about vaccinating their children?

13. References
California Department of Public Health (CDPH), Immunization Branch. (2011). What if you don’t immunize your child? Retrieved from
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2016) recommended immunizations for children from birth through 6 years old.
Retrieved from
Community Immunity ("Herd Immunity"). (2016, March 03). Retrieved April 25, 2016, from Vaccines.org:
Gilmour, J., Harrison, C., Asadi, L., Cohen, M., & Vohra, S. (2011). Childhood immunization: When physicians and parents disagree.
Pediatrics, 128 (suppl 4): S doi: /peds E
Healthypeople2020. (2015, November 9). Immunizations and infectious disease. Retrieved April 25, 2016, from
Healthypeople2020.gov:
Herd. (n.d.). Retrieved April 25, 2016, from
PublicHealth.org. (2015). Understanding Vaccines. Retrieved April 25, 2016, from PublicHealth: publichealth.org/public-awareness/understanding-vaccines/
Taylor, L., Swerdfeger, A., & Eslick, G. (2014). Vaccines are not associated with autism: An evidenced-based meta-analysis of case-control and cohort studies. Vaccine, 32(29),
Vaccine Education Center (2016). Vaccines on the go (Version 1.2.0) [Mobile application software]. Retrieved from
Vaccines and Immunizations. (2014). Retrieved April 26, 2016, from
World Health Organization. (2008, February 2). Vaccination greatly reduces disease, disability, death and inequity worldwide.
Retrieved April 25, 2016, from World Health Organization: