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Community Health Demands Participation: Are you Up to Date?
Vaccines have always had an important role in our health.
Today is Slice of Life Tuesday. Since I already wrote my Medium.com post today, I’ll keep this short. If you want to read it, you can go to the links at the end of this post. Thanks!
Today my husband and I got our newest COVID-19 booster shots. It’s the vaccine with combined variants. At the same time, we got our flu shots. I elected to get one in each arm and he got them both in the same arm.
Giving vaccines was something I did routinely as a Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner back in the early 1990s. I did a lot of well-child exams in my role at a private pediatrician’s office as well as at a county clinic. Discussing the safety of vaccines, possible side effects, and obtaining consent was all part of a routine day at work for me. Back then, we did have families refuse, but it was rare. And, it was usually for religious reasons. Therefore, I routinely gave one to four shots as per early childhood vaccine recommendations at once. I like to think I was good at it. But, babies will cry when held still and jabbed with a needle no matter how good one’s technique is at giving shots. It was always helpful if they had nice meaty thighs!
