Question

A client has experienced an adverse reaction to an immunization. The nurse has reported the event to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). What response should the nurse expect from this group? Select all that apply.

A.information from the report will be published in a central repository.

B. An officer from VAERS will contact the nurse by telephone for follow-up.

C.The VAERS office will contact the client for verification of the report.

D.The data will be added to other data about the vaccine.

E.The nurse will be asked to report the event to the state board of nursing.

Answer 1

Option A.

The vaccine adverse event reporting system is a national vaccine safety surveillance program co sponsored by the food and drug administration and the center for the diseases control and prevention. Main function of the VAERS is to detect possible signals of adverse events with vaccine. It collect and analyze information form the reports of adverse events that occurred after administration of licensed vaccine.It accept reports from the patient,parents, health care providers,pharmacist and vaccines manufacturer.  

The goal of VARES is detect new,unusual,or rare adverse events that happen after vaccination. It is a passive system not collect any information actively just analyze the reports of adverse events.It won't contact any one of affected people.

A central repository is a collection of stored data from existing database merged into one so that it may be shared,analyzed or updated throughout an organization.