Lauren's Immunisation - Transcription

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Lauren: My name is Lauren MacPherson and I am 17 years old and I am working currently but saving up to go on a gap year to Australia.

Nurse: Hi, would you like to take a seat? I’m Rina, I am one of the school nurses. What’s your name?

Lauren: I’m Lauren MacPherson

Nurse: And how are you today?

Lauren: I’m fine, how are you?

Nurse: I’m fine thanks. How were you after your last two injections?

Lauren: I was fine.

Nurse: You didn’t have any problems, that’s good. You’re not on any medicines or anything?

Lauren: No not at all

Nurse: You haven’t been ill or anything since your last two injections?

Lauren: No

Nurse: You’ve not had any injections since your last?

Lauren: No

Nurse: You are fit and healthy today?

Lauren: Yes

Nurse: And you’re not pregnant?

Lauren: No

Nurse: That’s fine, we’ll just get this over and done with then. Where are you going tonight?

Lauren: I’ve got a party tonight, so I’m quite excited.

Nurse: Oh! Can you just press on there, just on the cotton wool? And I’ll just do all the paper work attached to this. Now it is really important, I know that you’ve just had your immunisation, but it is really important that you get cervical screening when you are 20.

Lauren: Ok

Nurse: There’s a wee patient leaflet about what you had today, I’ve no doubt that you’ve got the other two but it is important that you read that.

Lauren: Alright, Ok, thanks

Nurse: Thanks a lot

Lauren: Bye.

Lauren: Because I have had the vaccine before, twice, I knew what to expect and I also feel really good mentally because that is me taking a step forward to planning my life.
After hearing a lot on the media about cervical cancer I though it was important and I definitely wanted to get protected against it.

Nurse: The HPV vaccine is an immunisation to protect young girls against cervical cancer. The vaccine is administered by injection, you get free injections. From the 1st to the 2nd there is at least one month apart and then one 6 months later.

Lauren: A lot of my friends received the HPV vaccine through school. The one’s that aren’t at school received it through their local NHS.
When I first went in the nurse was really friendly, she made me feel at ease and asked me a few questions and it was over in a couple of minutes. The first time I got it done, I got a kind of tingly feeling in my arm but it wasn’t sore. And then the last two times, I haven’t felt it at all. It’s been fine.

Nurse: After the young girls have had the immunisation it is really important that they continue to look after themselves and go to their GP for cervical screening, they’ll be invited from the age of 20. The more young girls who receive the HPV immunisation, the more they’ll be protected and there will be less HPV virus in the community and there will be less people who die from cervical cancer.

Lauren: The long-term benefits of the HPV vaccine motivated me, five minutes out of my day can save my life.