Health Care Management | Assessment

Running head: HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT
Immunization procedure
Services can assist families in finding out about the recommended
immunization schedule for children by visiting the Immunize Australia Program
website. This website contains details about recommended immunizations for
children and when they should have them. Services can print out and display the
factsheet available on the website for families. The current national
immunization schedule recommends that children receive immunizations at
regular intervals until they are two years old, with further immunizations
occurring until they are twelve. The schedule includes immunization for common
childhood diseases against which children have little or no protection. Families
and services can contact their local doctor’s surgery, child health nurse, local
council or their state or territory government health department to find out
where children can be immunized.
Recommended vaccinations for non-immune staff who work with young children
include:
hepatitis A
measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) (persons born during or since 1966 who have only received
one dose of the MMR vaccine should have a second dose)
chickenpox (if not previously infected)
pertussis (whooping cough) (an adult booster dose)
influenza (annual vaccination).
Outbreaks of these diseases in a childcare setting can result in serious illness in staff, children
attending the service and family members. Some of these diseases, such as rubella,

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chickenpox and influenza can cause severe disease in pregnant women and/or harm their
baby.
These diseases are generally very infectious and can spread before an infected person shows
signs of illness. Vaccination and good hand and respiratory hygiene are the most effective
ways to protect against infection.
For information on immunization of children, please refer to your doctor, or Queensland
Health.
Other diseases in childcare settings, like cytomegalovirus (CMV), cannot be prevented by
immunization and other approaches are required to manage the risks.
Managing the risks
The best protection for workers against diseases that are preventable by vaccination is an
occupational immunization program that:
includes an immunization policy which states:
the workplace's vaccination requirements
Vaccine refusal, medical contraindication to vaccination (medical condition which makes
vaccination inadvisable) and vaccine failure will be managed how the risks to contract and
labor hire workers, students, volunteers and others will be managed