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standing orders for vaccination in your medical practice allows
appropriately trained healthcare professionals — who are permitted
to do so under state law — to assess a patient's need for
vaccination, determine if there are contraindications and
precautions, and then to administer vaccine without obtaining an
individual physician’s written order. |
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Numerous studies have shown that standing orders, carried out by
nurses or other qualified healthcare professionals, are one of the
most consistently effective means for increasing vaccination rates
and reducing missed opportunities for vaccination, thereby
improving quality of care. |
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| CDC's
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)
recommends the use of standing orders to increase adult
vaccination rates. Standing orders may also be useful when
vaccinating children and teens. |
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| Exactly who
is authorized to administer vaccines under standing orders varies
by state law. To find out which medical personnel are legally
permitted to administer vaccines under standing orders in your
state,
contact your state immunization program manager. |
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Are you interested in starting a standing orders program in your
practice setting, but perhaps aren’t sure where to begin? The
Immunization Action Coalition (IAC) has materials that help make
standing orders easy to implement. |
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Standing orders templates for routinely recommended vaccines |
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| IAC has
created standing orders templates for all vaccines that are
routinely recommended for administration to children, teens and
adults. These standing orders are based on ACIP's vaccine
recommendations and are reviewed for technical accuracy by CDC
staff. IAC updates the content of its standing orders whenever
ACIP makes changes in a vaccine's recommendations. |
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| You can find
IAC’s standing orders templates for vaccines on
IAC's standing orders Web page. Some examples follow: |
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Access all of IAC's standing orders templates. |
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| To be
notified when new or revised standing orders templates become
available,
subscribe to IAC's free weekly news service, IAC Express,
which is sent to more than 50,000 healthcare professionals every
Wednesday. |
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ACIP Recommendations
Vaccine Information Statements 
