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Safety/Research

Vaccines are safe and effective. Like any product - medications, food, personal care products even - there are risks of harm, such as an unknown allergy. Vaccines have an excellent safety record, and scientists and researchers devote their careers to ensuring safety through continued study of vaccines and recipients of vaccines.

But vaccine safety remains one of the biggest concerns for people, and fear of a side effect is often cited in research, surveys, and anecdotes as a reason for refusing a vaccine. Nurses should be familiar with the research and development processes for vaccines, the safety and efficacy data that comes out of those processes, the actual risk/benefit scenarios for vaccination, and should be prepared to answer questions about vaccine safety.

In order to secure confidence in vaccines, there is a continuous effort to study, understand, and resolve any safety problems in a transparent manner.

While this does not guarantee that vaccines will never cause harm or that problems with vaccines will never occur, but it does help to minimize these events so that they happen only in the rarest of cases.

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