Protect Your Child, Immunize

Shared by Kwame Ofori • medicine, navy medicine live blog, nh camp pendleton • 2015

By Jennifer Holden, RN, BSN, immunizations program nurse manger, Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton National Infant Immunization Week (NIIW) is April 18–25, 2015. At Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton, we encourage everyone to make sure your youngest family members are up-todate on all vaccinations. Giving infants the recommended immunizations by age two is the best way to protect them from 14 serious childhood diseases. It is important to know what shots are needed and when to get them in order to prevent illnesses like flu, measles and pertussis (whooping cough). Ensuring that the youngest members of