Perspectives of Public Health Nurses on the Ethics of Mandated Vaccine Education

Research about health care professionals ’ communication with families that refuse routine childhood immunizations tends to focus on physicians (Henrikson et al., 2015; Opel et al., 2013). However, nurses are often tasked to discuss vaccines with families, and they typically administer vaccines more regularly than do physicians in pediat ric and family care contexts (Deem, 2017, 2018; Hoekstra& Margolis, 2016). Furthermore, some political communities have tasked their public health nurses with providing immunization education to families seeking to send their unvaccinated or under-vaccinated children to daycare or school (Navin, Kozak,& Clark, 2018).
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