Adult Immunisations

Record immunisations given to a patient at your practice or administered elsewhere.

Procedure

To Maintain Adult (patient >20 years of age) Immunisations:

From the patient's Clinical Window, select the Imm. tab.
To add an immunisation record, either:
- Click on the toolbar
- Press the F3 key
- Right-click in the list of immunisations (even if list is empty) and select New Item from the pop-up menu
In the Vaccination Window, if the vaccine was administered elsewhere, set Vaccine given elsewhere or Vaccine administered overseas.

This sets the Vaccinator drop-down list to 'Given Elsewhere'. The 'Vaccinator' and 'Consent provided by' fields remain disabled.
Send to AIR is set by default if the following rules are met. Deselect it if you don't want to submit the vaccination to the AIR.
If you are performing the immunisation on behalf of a practioner, from the Vaccinator list, select your name.

Nurse Practitioners are able to immunise, prescribe, dispense and so on. Nurses can also register as Ancillary Immunisation Providers for AIR purposes only (reporting vaccinations given to children).
The practitioner registered for the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) is listed. If required, from the Submit on behalf of list, select another practitioner.
The provider number of the practitioner is used to transmit data to the AIR. AIR notification payment is forwarded to the practitioner (who a nurse perform the immunisation on behalf of).
From the Consent provided by list, select who gave consent for the vaccination. Set Vaccination declined if no consent was given.
Enter a the date on which the immunisation was administered.
From the Vaccine name list, select the type of immunisation.
From the Route of Administration list, select where on the patient the vaccine was administered.
From the Vaccine Type list, select the program under which the vaccine was administered.
In the Sequence and Batch Numberfields, enter this information.
AIR batch number validation can be enforced in Advanced Link Options): batch numbers must contain only alpha-numeric characters (no spaces or punctuation).
In the Comment field, enter any comments (if necessary).
(Optional) Click Mark for recall to generate a recall notification to have the patient recalled for another immunisation in the future.
Click Save to save the immunisation record and return to the patient's record.

Results

Details of the immunisation administered at your health service are uploaded to the AIR if Send to AIR is set.

What to do next

If the conditions were met, an Immunisation Handout will be printed automatically.

If you recorded immunisations while in Mobility mode, when you have reconnected to your practice network and uploaded the patient's data to your Clinical server, upload the immunisation records to the AIR using the Outstanding Immunisations module.