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“Can We Vaccinate Everybody?” A Rehabilitation Ward's Experience of an Inpatient COVID-19 Vaccination Program

Gwynne Holford Ward (GHW) is an inpatient rehabilitation Unit at Queen Mary’s Hospital in London, UK, which provides care for patients with amputation rehabilitation needs (10 beds) as well as Level 1 and 2 specialist neurorehabilitation needs (26 beds). The ward MDT has encouraged all inpatients to...

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Autores principales: Dalton, Catherine, Lafeuillee, Gisele
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8935153/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35321448
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23743735221086761
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description Gwynne Holford Ward (GHW) is an inpatient rehabilitation Unit at Queen Mary’s Hospital in London, UK, which provides care for patients with amputation rehabilitation needs (10 beds) as well as Level 1 and 2 specialist neurorehabilitation needs (26 beds). The ward MDT has encouraged all inpatients to be vaccinated either during or prior to admission. We have conducted a weekly snapshot audit over a 3-week period in March 2021, which has shown an increase of the percentage of inpatients vaccinated, progressively from 68.75% to 80%, and 73% of vaccinated inpatients received the vaccine whilst on the ward. We also conducted inpatient interviews, which highlighted that: (1) opening dialogue about vaccines increased uptake of COVID-19 vaccine; (2) patients felt that all vaccination sites provided quick, efficient service; and (3) all patients who received the first COVID-19 vaccine were willing to have the second COVID-19 vaccine. Finally, although there were many hurdles faced whilst organizing the inpatient vaccination process, we have been able to cumulatively vaccinate 80% of rehabilitation inpatients making our ward a safer place to work and rehabilitate.
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spelling pubmed-89351532022-03-22 “Can We Vaccinate Everybody?” A Rehabilitation Ward's Experience of an Inpatient COVID-19 Vaccination Program Dalton, Catherine Lafeuillee, Gisele J Patient Exp Special Collection: COVID Gwynne Holford Ward (GHW) is an inpatient rehabilitation Unit at Queen Mary’s Hospital in London, UK, which provides care for patients with amputation rehabilitation needs (10 beds) as well as Level 1 and 2 specialist neurorehabilitation needs (26 beds). The ward MDT has encouraged all inpatients to be vaccinated either during or prior to admission. We have conducted a weekly snapshot audit over a 3-week period in March 2021, which has shown an increase of the percentage of inpatients vaccinated, progressively from 68.75% to 80%, and 73% of vaccinated inpatients received the vaccine whilst on the ward. We also conducted inpatient interviews, which highlighted that: (1) opening dialogue about vaccines increased uptake of COVID-19 vaccine; (2) patients felt that all vaccination sites provided quick, efficient service; and (3) all patients who received the first COVID-19 vaccine were willing to have the second COVID-19 vaccine. Finally, although there were many hurdles faced whilst organizing the inpatient vaccination process, we have been able to cumulatively vaccinate 80% of rehabilitation inpatients making our ward a safer place to work and rehabilitate. SAGE Publications 2022-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8935153/ /pubmed/35321448 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23743735221086761 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8935153/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35321448
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