Vaccination

Question 1

Which adults should receive Hepatitis B vaccine?

Answer 1

adolescents though age 18 and adults who are at high risk (people who were not vaccinated as infants and are from from endemic regions; immigrants; men who have sex with men, healthcare workers; injection drug users
Transmitted by blood, sex, injection

Question 2

What is the Hep B screening test?

Answer 2

HBsAg, HBsAb, core antigens etc

Question 3

Which adults should receive the influenza vaccine?

Answer 3

Anyone

• children ages 6mos
• pregnant women, immunosuppressed, older adults, nursing home residents, healthcare personnel

Question 4

Which adults should receive the pneumococcal vaccine?

Answer 4

all adults over age 65!

-if you have heart or pulmonary disease; immunocompromised; living in high risk areas

Question 5

Which adults should get the Rubella vaccine?

Answer 5

women and kids who never got it as a child

-DO NOT GIVE TO PR(EGNANT WOMEN or those who are immunocompromised (except those who test positive for HIV)

Question 6

How often is the Tetanus booster given?

Answer 6

every ten years

• give prophylaxis for wounds if the vaccination hx if unknown or if they haven’t received all three series
• give tetanus immunoglobulin

Question 7

So when do you get it first and when is the next batch given?

Answer 7

at 2 mos old and then at age 11.