Typically, the rabies vaccine is administered to pets in a separate injection at the same time as the canine distemper combination vaccine. However, the rabies vaccine can also be given alone (at a separate visit) or at the same time as other vaccines (such as the Lyme disease vaccine).
Assessment is important because of all the decisions you will make about children when teaching and caring for them. The decisions facing our three teachers at the beginning of this chapter all involve how best to educate children. Like them, you will be called upon every day to make decisions before, during, and after your teaching.
Decide why you want to conduct the assessment. There are a number of reasons why you might want to conduct a community assessment of needs and resources, among them: The reasons for an assessment will affect from whom and how you gather information, what is assessed, and what you do with the information you get.