This course provides midwives with the most up-to-date immunisation knowledge relevant to their practice.

This course is only available to midwives who have been provided access by Health New Zealand – Waitemata. For registration enquiries (Waitemata/Auckland midwives only), please contact Sandra Wilson or Jemima Salmon, Midwife Educators North Shore, email WT-Maternity.Education@tewhatuora.govt.nz

 Registration requirements

You must be:

be a registered midwife or senior midwifery student or registered nurse administering antenatal vaccination

Course Content

• Vaccine preventable diseases
• The maternal and infant immune systems
• Composition of vaccines
• The National Immunisation Schedule and immunisation coverage
• Vaccine safety including COVID vaccine
• Storage and handling of vaccines
• Communication and immunisation
• Vaccine administration
• Documentation and the Aotearoa Immunisation Register

Assessment 

The assessment is a set of 20 multiple choice questions with 40 minutes to complete.

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