Health Services to Offer Shots
Jessica Barrera
Posted on: 10/1/08 Section: News
PCC health services will be offering flu shots during the week of Nov. 3
Flu shots will be administered by all of the registered nursing students in one of the nursing classrooms in the first floor of the U Building.
Two formulas will be used for the shot.
The first will be preservative-free for pregnant women and people over 18.
The second will be for people with a high risk of catching the flu, such as individuals over 50 or those with chronic medical conditions. The shot will be $5 for students and $15 for staff, faculty and community members.
Giving the shot is also part of the RN students' lab requirements.
"This will be an instructional activity to nursing students," said Jo Buczko, coordinator of the student health services.
Joyce Muyingo, one of the RN nursing professors, said that everything involving this year's flu shot will be the same for RN students with the exception that there will be more emphasis on training, which will be even more meticulous than before.
"Students must have confidence in giving injections by practicing on each other and training at the hospital [before they give the flu shot]," said Muyingo.
Licensed Vocational Nursing students will also be administering the same flu shots in the CEC for about two days.
"We have been doing this [service] for 10 to 12 years," said Buczko.
"[It] helps us keep the campus safe and healthy." Last year about 800 people received the shot from the RN students.
Flu shots will be administered by all of the registered nursing students in one of the nursing classrooms in the first floor of the U Building.
Two formulas will be used for the shot.
The first will be preservative-free for pregnant women and people over 18.
The second will be for people with a high risk of catching the flu, such as individuals over 50 or those with chronic medical conditions. The shot will be $5 for students and $15 for staff, faculty and community members.
Giving the shot is also part of the RN students' lab requirements.
"This will be an instructional activity to nursing students," said Jo Buczko, coordinator of the student health services.
Joyce Muyingo, one of the RN nursing professors, said that everything involving this year's flu shot will be the same for RN students with the exception that there will be more emphasis on training, which will be even more meticulous than before.
"Students must have confidence in giving injections by practicing on each other and training at the hospital [before they give the flu shot]," said Muyingo.
Licensed Vocational Nursing students will also be administering the same flu shots in the CEC for about two days.
"We have been doing this [service] for 10 to 12 years," said Buczko.
"[It] helps us keep the campus safe and healthy." Last year about 800 people received the shot from the RN students.
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