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Continuing Professional Development
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6/737 Bourke Street
Docklands VIC 3008
Australia
Join us for Nurse Skill Share – a space for nurses to learn, share, and grow together. Led by experienced professionals, these sessions dive into key topics and offer practical insights you can use every day. They’re also a great chance to ask questions, exchange experiences, and build supportive connections. Nurses working in Primary Care and Aged Care are welcome to attend.
Enhance your confidence and efficiency in delivering immunisations for all age groups.
For providers delivering immunisations in the primary care setting, this interactive session will cover best practice for conducting comprehensive immunisation appointments and introduce essential tools and resources to support your practice.
Topics include:
• HALO framework for immunisation planning & catch-up schedules
• Updates on Measles and changes to the Immunisation Program in 2026.
• AIR access and reporting to identify under-vaccinated patients
Speakers:
Sonja Elia is a Melbourne born Nurse Practitioner with almost 30 years experience at major metropolitan hospitals and over 20 years specialist experience in immunisation. Since graduating as Victoria’s first immunisation-specific Nurse Practitioner in 2017, Sonja has played a leading role working with multidisciplinary teams in expanding access to scheduled and non scheduled vaccines.
In her current role as Nurse Practitioner, Workforce Immunisation at Austin Health, she provides clinical leadership for staff vaccination and infectious disease screening, while contributing to education, research, quality improvement, and service development.
Dr Claire Gordon is an infectious diseases and public health physician at the North Eastern Public Health Unit. She is also a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne and leads the Australian Donation and Transplantation Biobank.
Dr Katherine Ong is a public health physician at the North Eastern Public Health Unit. Katherine leads NEPHU’s Medical and Epidemiology branch to help develop evidence-informed strategies and actions to strengthen public health outcomes for all communities in our catchment.
