DHA Public Health Chief Nursing Officer Lunch and Learn Series: Highlights of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice (ACIP) General Best Practice Guidelines for Immunization

December 5, 2024

Program Description: 

The Defense Health Agency (DHA) Public Health (PH) Chief Nursing Officer hosts a Lunch and Learn series for nursing staff assigned at DHA to provide an avenue for academic and professional discussion of articles of interest that transcends across PH nursing. This series disseminates new information throughout DHA PH nursing professionals to be shared in their engagement with Military Health System (MHS) nursing staff. The events will be hosted live via a dedicated TEAMS channel to allow for maximum participation.

Target Audience

This activity provides continuing education for nurses. A certificate of attendance is available for other attendees.

Learning Objectives

  1. Communicate three General Principles of Immunization Practice and explain how these are implemented into the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) vaccine schedule in a clinic encounter.
  2. Identify three special patient populations and describe appropriate patient care actions in a clinic encounter.
  3. Summarize three vaccine safety activities in your patient care encounter.
  4. Discuss one opportunity for vaccine program improvement for your patient care setting.
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 Nurses (ANCC)
    DHA, J-7, CEPO is accredited by the Joint Accreditation/ Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) to provide this Continuing Nursing Education Course for a maximum of 1.00 ANCC contact hours. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • 1.00 Certificate of Attendance
Course opens: 
11/28/2024
Course expires: 
12/19/2024
Event starts: 
12/05/2024 - 11:30am EST
Event ends: 
12/05/2024 - 12:30pm EST
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Falls Church, VA
United States

Laurie A. Housel, APRN, MSN, FNP-C. Presenter has no financial or non-financial relationships to disclose.

Disclosure: DHA J-7 staff, Planning Committee Members and reviewers have no financial or non-financial interest to disclose. All faculty members have no financial or non-financial interest to disclose.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 Nurses (ANCC)
    DHA, J-7, CEPO is accredited by the Joint Accreditation/ Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) to provide this Continuing Nursing Education Course for a maximum of 1.00 ANCC contact hours. Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
  • 1.00 Certificate of Attendance
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Accommodations: CEPO provides captions and transcripts to hearing-impaired learners upon request. For real-time closed captioning, contact CEPO at least three (3) business days before the event. If we cannot arrange for live captioning, a video recording and audio transcript will be provided after the event, typically within ten business days. For events delivered by CEPO’s partners, please contact the course instructor to inquire about accommodations.

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