Working at the forefront of patient care, School Nurses within the South Eastern Trust play a vital role in delivering life-saving vaccines, to children and young people across the community. Through immunisation programmes, they help protect them from serious and potentially life-threatening diseases.
School Nursing Teams deliver these programmes across a wide range of settings including schools, GP Practices, Health Clinics and hospital sites, ensuring that vaccines are accessible to those that need them.
South Eastern Trust, School Immunisation Nurse, Kathleen McDaid shared how she and the Team, “Work to make a difference in young people’s health.” Kathleen said, “We are a small Team who travel across the Trust area, delivering vaccines and immunisations throughout the year in schools. We have a really good working relationship with the schools, as well as with the children and the young people that we meet.”
Kathleen continued, “We offer the HPV (Human Papillomavirous) vaccine to school children in Years Nine and Ten and deliver the School Leaving Booster to Year 11 and 12 children. As a Team, we offer the Meningitis and MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella) vaccine as well as the Flu across the schools we support.
“Vaccination is so important as it helps prevent serious illness and diseases in childhood and later in life.”