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University of Vermont UVM ScholarWorks Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects Family Medicine Community 2022 Neuro-inclusive care demonstration through vaccination clinic elizabeth barker University of Vermont Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/fmclerk  Part of the Medical Education Commons, and the Primary Care Commons Recommended Citation barker, elizabeth, "Neuro-inclusive care demonstration through vaccination clinic" (2022). Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects. 734. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/fmclerk/734 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Family Medicine Community at UVM ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects by an authorized administrator of UVM ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact donna.omalley@uvm.edu. Neuro-inclusive care demonstration through vaccination clinic  All Brains Belong Elizabeth Barker December 2021 & January 2022Dr. Melissa Houser  Problem Identification and description of needThe problem was first identified by Dr. Houser when she heard about patients unable to get a covid vaccination at the given clinics Patients get overwhelmed. People don’t know what accommodations people needWhat does neuro inclusive care look like? An experience where they are able to receive a vax with their needs considered Public health costCovid-19 numbers have continued to rise in late 2021 and early 2022 in Vermont and across the nation Most recent  data from AAP• 9,452,491 total child COVID-19 cases reported• children represented 17.8% of all cases• Overall rate: 12,559 cases per 100,000 children in the population• 981,488 child COVID-19 cases were reported the past week from January 6th ‘22 to Jan 13th ‘22• Over two weeks, at the most recent peak, there was a 20% increase in the cumulative number of child COVID-19 cases since the beginning of the pandemic• Among states reporting, children ranged from 1.7%-4.4% of their total cumulative hospitalizations, and 0.1%-1.5% of all their child COVID-19 cases resulted in hospitalizationCommunity Perspective on Issue and Support for Project• Dr. Melissa Houser • "There are so many 'defaults' in our society, including within the healthcare system, Any time there is a default expectation, anyone who doesn’t fit into that mold feels 'othered, When we cause people to feel 'othered,' we don’t have true inclusion and there are so many who feel excluded from current healthcare system.”• Hannah Bloom, Pediatric Occupational therapist • "In the traditional healthcare system, there are times when medical events are delivered without intentional acknowledgement for a child's bodily autonomy. What Dr. Houser created with this vaccine clinic was the ability for family systems and individual nervous systems to be the directors of their own health experience."Intervention and MethodologyIntervention was a news story with LCOM Spread awareness of what sensory informed care looks like and provided opportunities for vaccination Worked with UVM LCOM editorial team, Michelle BooklessLocal news was tagged on social media Results and Response Lots of positive responses to the article • Responses on Instagram • 122 likes • Comment “this is tremendous!!!”Vaccination Clinic • More online registrations • New registrants A lot a great verbal feedback in person at the clinic Evaluation of effectiveness and limitationsThe article only had an online presenceWas not picked up by other news sources Some people still had the misconception that it was for neuro divergent only Recommendations for future projectsMore direct information for family medicine clinics and accommodations for health care Cost of sensory items can add up, our’s were donated from Vermont Family NetworkWhat does this look like in a hospital setting?What education do medical staff still need? References• American Academy of Pediatrics. (2022, January 20). Children and covid-19: State-level data report. Home. Retrieved January 24, 2022, from https://www.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/children-and-covid-19-state-level-data-report/ 

Neuro-inclusive care demonstration through vaccination clinic

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