Feasibility and sustainability of a nurse-led intervention to integrate HPV vaccination into medical processing for active-duty Soldiers
| Autor: | Emily Penick, Brigid K. Grabert, Emma Stockton, Hannah Prentice-Dunn, Marion Ward, Trinita Kirk, Melissa B. Gilkey |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics. 18 |
| ISSN: | 2164-554X 2164-5515 |
| Popis: | To increase Soldiers' access to HPV vaccination, we evaluated the feasibility and sustainability of a nurse-led intervention to integrate HPV vaccination into medical processing procedures for Soldiers. We partnered with nursing staff to introduce HPV vaccine into existing vaccination services at a nurse-led clinic that serves Soldiers at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. In addition to stocking the vaccine, the intervention included training nursing staff (HPV vaccination is not required for US military service, and Soldiers’ uptake is low. We trained nursing staff at a large military clinic to recommend HPV vaccine to Soldiers using a nursing education intervention to integrate HPV vaccination into routine care for active duty Soldiers. Our findings suggest that training nursing staff to recommend and administer HPV vaccines to Soldiers is feasible and low cost, and may warrant wider-scale testing as a strategy for increasing military readiness and protecting Soldiers from HPV-attributable cancers. Until guideline and policy changes are implemented and HPV vaccine is required for military service, use of education strategies is one path to increasing HPV vaccine coverage among Soldiers to ensure protection from HPV-related diseases. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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