Vaccine Schedules

• Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
• NHIP Simplified Schedule

Influenza

• 2021-22 Recommendations
  

Recommended Vaccines for Health Care Workers

General Best Practice Guidelines for Immunizations (CDC)

For clinicians and other health care providers who vaccinate patients in varied settings, including hospitals, provider offices, pharmacies, schools, community health centers, and public health clinics.

Standards for Immunization Practices

Everything you need to know about how to improve coverage rates and ensure efficient and effective vaccine delivery to ALL patients. These are best immunization practices for all healthcare providers to follow, outlining strategies to assess of vaccination status at every encounter, recommend and educate patients on needed vaccines, properly administer vaccines or refer to another provider if vaccine is not on hand, and document appropriately.

• Adult Immunization Standards
  
• Child and Adolescent Immunization Standards

Education and Training

• NHIP Vaccine Management Training
  • Vaccine Coordinator Training , details and FAQs
    
  • Register for required Vaccine Management Training
    
    • All Primary and Assistant Vaccine Coordinators are required to complete vaccine management training offered by NHIP, at least yearly, to meet the CDC's required annual training policy.
      
    • Primary Coordinators new to vaccine management must attend a scheduled NHIP vaccine management webinar within 30 days of taking the role of Primary Coordinator. If there is no NHIP training webinar being offered within 30 days, they must complete the two of the You call the Shots training modules offered by the CDC, Vaccines for Children and Storage & Handling modules. This will provide a good foundation until the person is able to attend an NHIP training.
• NH Immunization Information System (NHIIS) Training
• You Call The Shots, additional vaccine training courses (recommended)
  
• NHIP Quarterly Conference Call : One contact hour awarded to eligible health care professionals.
  
• CDC Video IM Injections

Resources

• Vaccine Management Resources
  • Attention Parents
  • Fridge-Tag 2 Data Logger Training Video
  • Cold Chain Incident Report | Cold Chain Incident Report
  • Vaccine Label Examples - Helpful strategies in labeling vaccine and diluents
  • Vaccine Management Plan Template
  • Vaccine Storage & Handling (You Call The Shots)
    
  • Vaccine Storage and Handling Toolkit
• Vaccinating Adults: A Step by Step Guide
  
• Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is a national early warning system to detect possible safety issues and is co-managed by CDC and FDA. Anyone can report an adverse event to VAERS. Healthcare professionals are required to report certain adverse events and vaccine manufacturers are required to report all adverse events that come to their attention.
  
• Immunization Action Coalition (IAC)
  
  • Vaccine Information Statements (VIS), including many translations
  • Vaccine Package Inserts
    
  • Clinic Tools
    
  • Ask the Experts
    
• Know the Site : Clinic tool to prevent vaccine administration shoulder injury
  
• ACIP Vaccine Recommendations and Guidelines, including associated MMWR publications

Publications and Newsletters


• IAC Express subscribe to receive new and updated vaccine information each week
  
• NHIP Newsletter: All enrolled NHIP/VFC and Adult Providers will receive automatically. If you are not on the mailing list, please email immunization@dhhs.nh.gov
  

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