Week 15: Immunology

Question 1

What vaccines should not be administered together?

Answer 1

Meningococcal, pertussis, and typhoid

Question 2

Influenza

wait how long?

People 65+ get what flu vaccine

Answer 2

Wait at least 48 hours after after stopping antiviral drugs to
treat the flu

fluzone

Question 3

Active Immunizing Drugs

diphtheria and tetanus toxoids
and acellular pertussis vaccine

given how?

When is it safe for use in pregnancy?

Answer 3

Parenteral form; deep IM injection!!!!

Safe for use in pregnancy AFTER
the 1st trimester

Question 4

haemophilus influenzae type B
Conjugate Vaccine (Hib)

given how?

Answer 4

Parenteral form; deep IM injection!!!!

Question 5

Hepatitis B vaccine

Contraindicated in?

given how?

Given in a series of?

Answer 5

Clients w/ an allergy to yeast

Parenteral; IM injections

Given in a series of three different injections

Question 6

measles, mumps, rubella
(MMR) vaccine

contraindicated in?

Answer 6

Allergy to neomycin and eggs

Question 7

pneumococcal vaccine,
polyvalent, and 13-valent

Who should receive this vaccine?

Answer 7

all smokers 19-64 years of age
receive the pneumococcal vaccine

65+ receive Prevnar 13 in addition to Pneumovax 23 if they have never
received a pneumonia vaccine

Question 8

HPV

Recommended for who?

Contraindicated in?

Answer 8

Recommended for ALL adolescents 11 and 12

clients who show hypersensitivity to yeast or to their first injection of the vaccine