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For your initial post, answer the following questions. Use what you have learned from your readings and other content discussed in this course. Please include at least three scholarly sources within your initial post.

Group A:

1. Patient #1: Two five-year-old girls are on your schedule for a kindergarten physical. The foster parent of one of the children indicates she received all her immunization from birth to one year of age, but after that the child has not had any further vaccines. The second child appears to have been vaccinated per the CDC schedule.

• Is there a difference in the immunization plan you will initiate today for these two patients? Why or why not?
• What immunizations will you be ordering for each of these two patients today?

1. Patient #2: You have two patients on your schedule for the HPV vaccine. One is a 27-year-old female. In taking her health history, you find she is sexually active and that she had a splenectomy when she was 17. The second patient is an 11-year-old female whose mother is concerned and wants to discuss the vaccine further before consenting. She feels that by giving the child the vaccine she is giving her permission to be sexually active.

• What type of immunizations will you recommend and why for each of these patients?
• What type of counseling will you provide in each of these scenarios related to their immunization needs?