Meeting Community Needs While Modeling Adaptation in Disaster Nursing Education

For more than 15 years, undergraduate prelicensure students have designed, implemented, and evaluated an annual mass immunization clinic for the campus community. This exercise provides students with activities that promote public health leadership and management skills. In the fall of 2020 during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the campus community still anticipated the annual mass immunization clinic to continue.

The annual mass immunization clinic was modified to meet all of the COVID-19 best practices recommendations. The clinic was moved outdoors to accommodate participants maintaining a distance of 6 feet. Although masks were required the clinic remained a gloveless procedure.

Within an 8-hour time period, 2,870 flu vaccines were administered.

This model proved to be effective in delivering the annual mass immunization clinic during a pandemic. Additionally, this model was used to help deliver the COVID-19 immunization when it became available. [.