Podcast: Flu Vaccination Again This Year?: What To Say When Patients Ask

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How will you address this question when your patients ask? Find out in this podcast.

"Do I really need a flu shot this year? I’m healthy….I don’t have heart disease or asthma, and I just hate needles!”

How will you address this question when your patients ask? Here, with some succinct and useful advice, is pediatric nurse practitioner, Patsy Stinchfield, RN, MS, CPNP, who is Director of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota.
 

Flu Vaccination Again This Year?: What To Say When Patients Ask

 

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