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Week 3- Immunization Case Study
Assignment
Primary Care Of The Childbearing (Chamberlain University)
This case study and scenarios are about newborns, infants, children and adolescents getting their
required and recommended vaccines. Immunizations are important and care givers should make
it a point of offering these vaccines at the age appropriate when they visit the clinic. With that
content the responses to the case study are as follows:
Case # 1
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The newborn should get the Hep B Vaccine within the first 12 hours after their birth. This
first dose helps protect the baby against any unknown or unnoticed family members that may
have Hepatitis B
Recombivax HB: 0.5ml (5mcg) taken at months 0, 1 and 6 months. The dose would be 0.5ml (5
mcg). The sequencing would be dose #1, #2, #3.
(CDC, 2020).
If the mother tested positive for Hep B, then the child would need to get a second vaccine which
is called hepatitis B immune globin or HBIG. It helps give the baby extra protection and help to
fight off the virus as soon as the baby is born and as soon as the parent is known to be positive
for Hep B.
If the mothers Hep B status was unknown, then the child will still be given the child the
HBIG vaccine at most 7 days from birth (Barnett, 2021).
Case # 2
During this visit, the 2-month-old child will begin the Full Vaccine Schedule. At this age, the
child will get their second dose of the Hep B vaccine. There are also another 5 vaccines that they