Preparing Nursing Students to Effectively Address Vaccine Hesitancy
Webinar Details & Objectives
Teaching methods for health professional education including nursing practice are in need of enhancements to stay with the growing need of vaccine and immunization training. With the increase in vaccine hesitancy, it is important that future nurses are armed with the best evidence to promote immunizations. With the current trend of vaccine hesitancy, it is important that future nurses are armed with the best evidence to promote immunizations. To improve the integration of immunization in pre-licensure nursing education, the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research (APTR) and the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) convened the Nursing Education Experts (NEEs), a group of experts with diverse nursing perspectives. During this webinar, the speakers will share the development and framework of Immunization Resources for Undergraduate Nursing (IRUN) teaching resources and how they can be used to prepare nursing students to address vaccine hesitancy in their communities of practice.
Objectives
- Discuss history and current state of vaccine hesitancy in the United States
- Explain the immunization resources for undergraduate nursing (IRUN) project including target audience, contributing members, goals, history and development of the IRUN products.
- Share strategies on how IRUN resources can be used to prepare students to address vaccine hesitancy.
This webinar is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Academic Partnerships to Improve Health.
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Speakers
Priya Schaffner, RN, FNP-CPublic Health Nursing Fellow
Centers for Disease Control
Priya has a background in public health and nursing and has worked with several government programs and non-governmental organizations, including the United States Peace Corps in Togo and Partners in Health in Boston. She also spent two years supporting workforce and career development initiatives and HIV resource development within the CDC’s Division of Global HIV & TB. Priya is currently a Doctor of Nursing Practice Candidate at Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing.
As the AACN-CDC Public Health Nursing Fellow, Priya works in CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases managing the design, distribution, and evaluation of project materials for the Immunization in Undergraduate Nursing Project. Which will be featured during this webinar.
Susan Brasher, PhD, CPNPAssistant Professor
Emory University
Dr. Susan Brasher has an extensive pediatric background in both the inpatient setting as a pediatric Registered Nurse in a pediatric dedicated hospital and in the outpatient setting as a Certified Pediatric Nurse Practitioner (CPNP). Additionally, she has several years of experience in teaching Pediatric Nursing to both undergraduate and graduate nursing students. She received her PhD in Nursing from the University of Florida with an emphasis on pediatric neurodevelopmental disorders, specifically Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Pricing and CE Credit
This webinar is free to deans, faculty, staff and students from AACN member schools of nursing. All non-member audiences will be required to pay a $59 webinar fee.
Continuing Education Credits
Eligible attendees may receive one continuing nursing education (CNE) contact hour for participating in this webinar. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is an accredited CNE-provider by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. The Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) works with the National Board of Public Health Examiners (NBPHE) to provide CPH credits.