Immunisation

USQ Health Services, Toowoomba Campus is able to provide medical consultations on the following:

• all aspects of travel including vaccine requirements, travel medical needs, documentation and advice on disease prevention and health promotion while abroad
• immunisation requirements for nursing courses.

Swine Flu Vaccination (H1N1 Influenza Vaccine)

The free Panvax vaccine (Pandemic H1N1 Influenza (Swine Flu) Vaccine) is now available in most medical centres.

Many hospitals, health facilities and your usual general practitioner are running vaccination clinics. Alternatively, the USQ Toowoomba Health Service is running limited vaccination clinics on campus for USQ students. Please phone + 61 7 4631 2386 or visit Student Services in G block- USQ Toowoomba to make enquiries about attending one of these clinics.

All people can get vaccinated but some people are more at risk of severe outcomes if they catch this flu. Vaccination is strongly recommended for:

• pregnant women
• parents and guardians of infants up to six months old
• people with underlying chronic conditions, including: heart disease; asthma and other lung diseases; cancer; diabetes; kidney disease; neurological disease; other chronic conditions (talk to your GP)
• people who are severely obese
• Indigenous Australians
• frontline health workers, and
• community care workers.

Information about the vaccine is available at the Australian Government Health Emergency website.

Travel advice and immunisations

The Campus Nurse, Toowoomba Campus is available to discuss which vaccines will need to be obtained for any proposed travel.

It will be necessary to provide information concerning: destination(s); time of departure; length of stay; type of accommodation; rural or city travel; previous immunisations.

Stocks of most vaccines required are maintained and if not, a script can be written and filled at a chemist.

Nursing students

All vaccines required to fulfil immunisation requirements for nursing courses can be obtained at the USQ Toowoomba Health Service. The Nursing Immunisation Record (PDF* 123KB) provides you with a record of immunisations received.

*This file is in Portable Document Format (PDF) which requires the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader. A free copy of Acrobat Reader may be obtained from Adobe. Users who are unable to access information in PDF should contact Student Services,telephone +61 7 4631 2372 to obtain this information in an alternative format.