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Handouts: Administering Vaccines
Educational pieces for healthcare professionals and their patients
 
Administering Vaccines: Dose, Route, Site, and Needle Size
How to Administer Intramuscular and Subcutaneous Vaccine Injections
Don’t Be Guilty of These Preventable Errors in Vaccine Administration
 
Skills Checklist for Vaccine Administration
•  Administering Vaccines to Adults: Dose, Route, Site, and Needle Size
•  How to Administer Intramuscular and Subcutaneous Vaccine Injections to Adults
•  How to Administer Intradermal, Intranasal, and Oral Vaccinations
•  How to Administer Intramuscular and Intranasal Influenza Vaccines
•  How to Administer Multiple Intramuscular Vaccines to Adults During One Visit
•  Medical Management of Vaccine Reactions in Children and Teens
•  Medical Management of Vaccine Reactions in Adults
•  Summary of Recommendations for Child/Teen Immunization
•  Summary of Recommendations for Adult Immunization
•  Vaccines with Diluents: How to Use Them
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Standing Orders Templates for Vaccine Administration
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Essential IAC Resources
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Ask the Experts: Administering Vaccines
IAC experts answer challenging questions about vaccines
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Vaccine Information Statements
VISs explain both the benefits and risks of a vaccine
ACIP Vaccine Recommendations
CDC recommendations are listed alphabetically by vaccine
Package Inserts
Listed alphabetically by vaccine
Additional IAC Tools to Help You
IZ Express – Free Email News Service
IAC's free weekly email news service with more than 55,000 subscribers
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Up-to-date immunization information delivered every Wednesday
Technically Speaking Column Archive
Articles on practical aspects of vaccine delivery by IAC's executive director emerita, Dr. Deborah L. Wexler.
Vaccinating Adults: A Step-by-Step Guide
IAC’s 140-page beginner or refresher book on how to vaccinate adults
What's New at IAC
A chronological listing of all new and updated IAC educational materials
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Immunization Techniques DVD, "Flu Vaccine" buttons and stickers, pins, record cards, and laminated schedules
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Immunization Techniques DVD
Watch the 25-min video "Immunization Techniques: Best Practices with Infants, Children, and Adults from the California Department of Public Health." - Learn More!
CLINIC TOOLS
Administering Vaccines
Scheduling Vaccines
Adolescent Vaccination Screening for Contraindications
Adult Vaccination Storage and Handling
Documenting Vaccinations Vaccine Recommendations
Partner Resources
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
Vaccine Administration Web Section
Extensive listing of CDC information about vaccine administration
Vaccine Administration Resource Library
More than a dozen brief vaccine administration and web-based trainings
Video: "Intramuscular Injection Sites"
Video: "Subcutaneous Injection Sites"
ACIP Vaccine Recommendations
CDC’s home page for ACIP recommendations
General Best Practice Guidelines for Immunization: Best Practices Guidance of ACIP
Section 6: Vaccine Administration
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Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases (The Pink Book)
Pink Book
CDC textbook with comprehensive information on routinely used vaccines and the diseases they prevent
Chapter 6: Vaccine Administration
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Immunization Education and Training
Immunization courses, webcasts, and self-study
Alliance for Immunization in Michigan
Vaccine Administration Web Section
Lots of tools to help you with vaccine administration
California Department of Public Health - EZIZ Website
EZ-IZ Vaccine Administration Job Aids
Helpful job aids and materials
EZ-IZ Online Training
EZ-IZ online training
E-learning website for California's VFC Program
Video: Immunization Techniques: Best Practices with Infants, Children, and Adults (25 min.)
Produced in 2010, this training video describes how to administer vaccines to patients across the age span.
American Academy of Pediatrics
Vaccine Administration Web Section
Immunizations need to be administered according to the 7 rights
Institute for Safe Medication Practices
Vaccine Error Reporting Program (VERP)
Online reporting of vaccination procedural errors
Immunization Site Maps
Immunization Site Map: Children
Immunization Site Map: Teens
Immunization Site Map: Adults
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Vaccine Questions?
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• Contact: State Immunization Program Managers
 
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This page was updated on January 12, 2023.
This page was reviewed on June 8, 2021.
 
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