TY - JOUR
T1 - COVID-19 vaccination: intramuscular injection technique
AU - Gordon, Charlotte
PY - 2021/3/25
Y1 - 2021/3/25
N2 - COVID-19 vaccinations are a key strategy to facilitate emergence from the current pandemic and the most effective way to protect the population, saving thousands of lives. It is hoped that the programme will expand, with a view to offering vaccination to all adults by the autumn of 2021 (Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), 2021). The current COVID-19 vaccination programme is the largest seen in NHS history (NHS England and NHS Improvement, 2020), with an estimated 80 000-strong workforce recruited, a significant number of those from fields of nursing. As such, effective and evidence-based intramuscular (IM) injection technique is an essential training requirement for all of those involved in vaccine administration within the programme.
AB - COVID-19 vaccinations are a key strategy to facilitate emergence from the current pandemic and the most effective way to protect the population, saving thousands of lives. It is hoped that the programme will expand, with a view to offering vaccination to all adults by the autumn of 2021 (Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), 2021). The current COVID-19 vaccination programme is the largest seen in NHS history (NHS England and NHS Improvement, 2020), with an estimated 80 000-strong workforce recruited, a significant number of those from fields of nursing. As such, effective and evidence-based intramuscular (IM) injection technique is an essential training requirement for all of those involved in vaccine administration within the programme.
KW - Intramuscular injection technique
KW - COVID 19
KW - Vaccines
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85103507741&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.12968/bjon.2021.30.6.350
DO - 10.12968/bjon.2021.30.6.350
M3 - Article
VL - 30
SP - 350
EP - 353
JO - British Journal of Nursing
JF - British Journal of Nursing
SN - 0966-0461
IS - 6
ER -