Partial vaccines and Mass vaccines

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Specializes in med surg ltc psych.

Hello all, you know throughout my nursing program those two vaccine catagories were never covered or discussed. So, I honestly don't know very much about them. Would like to be enlightened as to which ones they are and the differences. I may opt to do some flu clinics later this year, and felt bad that I didn't know enough about them before considering doing flu clinics.

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Specializes in critical care: trauma/oncology/burns.

I have heard of live, weakend vaccines [measles, mumps, rubella, polio, chicken pox], killed or inactivated vaccines [flu, rabies, polio - Salk vaccine, hep A], subunit [Hep B], and conjugate vaccines [H influenza B, pneumococcal], but never partial or mass.

I would be interested to learn of these!

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Specializes in LPN.

Are you referring to people who choose only certain vaccines and sign waivers for the others? People sometimes speak of being "partially vaccinated". I assume "mass" means the recommended schedule for everyone, or vaccinating an entire population.

I'm not sure what either of these concepts have to do with flu shot clinics. I think you will need to be more specific.

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