Royal College of Nurses have published Supporting the Delivery of Immunisation Education – a quality framework to support the implementation of national standards and guidelines on immunisation training. This can be found here:
RCN Supporting the Delivery of Immunisation Education
It includes information such as:
The NHS in England has two e-learning immunisation and vaccination resources available. They are designed for all those involved in, advising about, and/or administering immunisation. The resources are intended as an adjunct to face-to-face sessions and could be incorporated into local training. The two packages should be used together and are outlined below.
- NHS core learning (hosted by The National Skills Academy), contains an immunisation and vaccination package with seven modules: corelearningunit.nhs.uk
- The Healthy Child Programme has been developed between the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH), the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and the Community Practitioners and Health Visitors Association (CPHVA) (hosted by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health). It includes an immunisation module which has five sessions: https://www.e-lfh.org.uk/programmes/healthy-child-programme/
These resources are available to anyone with an NHS email account in England, or those with access to the NHS National Learning Management System. There is now a charge for the NHS core learning modules.
Face-to-face training sessions are still necessary alongside e-learning for reflective practice, discussion of scenarios and to receive real-time feedback. It is recommended that there is some face-to-face component in training for all first time
immunisers.
Travel Vaccination Support
For travel vaccination support – please access NathNac via www.nathnac.net