Study Guide for Infectious Diseases and Immunizations

STUDY GUIDE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND IMMUNIZATIONS

The following are suggested activities to enhance your learning:

1) Review Chapter Highlights at the end of Chapter 19 in Ball & Bindler.

2) Review the case study at the beginning of Chapter 19 about Lian whose immunization status has lapsed.

3) Review the truths and myths about vaccines which will help in making your assessment of which vaccines Lian should get and which ones she will still need. Consider ways to begin this discussion with the mother and ways to encourage Lian's mother to return for follow-up appointments.

4) Consider ways to approach the child with a vaccine as well as ways to decrease the child's anxiety and pain.

5) Complete the matching exercise in the packet which matches the name of the infectious disease with an identifying characteristic. Review the list of infectious diseases in the outline for this chapter which categorizes the diseases according to viral, bacterial, and vector borne transmission.