Increasing HPV Vaccination Rates in Your Practice webinar with Dr. W. Michael Brown on 20 April 2023 at 12noon. Learn practical tools and strategies to increase HPV vaccination rates! In partnership with the North Carolina Immunization Coalition. Click here to register.
NCIP Providers: A new Measles Mumps and Rubella (MMR) vaccine, PRIORIX, is now available. Click here for more information.
Influenza (flu) and COVID-19 are both contagious respiratory illnesses, but they are caused by different viruses and required separate vaccines. Annual influenza vaccination is recommended for everyone aged 6 months and older to decrease illness and death caused by influenza. Getting up to date, and staying up to date with the COVID-19 vaccination is also important
During the COVID-19 pandemic, reducing the overall burden of respiratory illnesses is important to protect vulnerable populations at risk for severe illness, our healthcare system, and other critical infrastructure, such as people who work in transportation, food services, and emergency services. CDC recommends that healthcare personnel use every opportunity during the influenza season to administer influenza vaccines to all eligible persons, including:
Healthcare personnel should consult current influenza vaccine recommendations for guidance around the timing of administration and use of specific vaccines.
CDC is offering a series of weekly one-hour web-on-demand videos that will provide an overview of vaccination principles, general best practices, immunization strategies, and specific information about vaccine-preventable diseases and the vaccines that prevent them. There is no registration process to view the sessions. The link to each course can be accessed on/after the indicated date. Please visit the Pink Book series page for the schedule and additional information. Continuing Education (CE) will be available for each event.
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused healthcare personnel to change how they operate to continue providing essential services, including administration of routine vaccines.
Because of COVID-19-related reductions in people accessing vaccination services, it is important to assess the vaccination status of all patients – across the lifespan – at each visit to avoid missed opportunities for vaccination and ensure timely vaccine catch-up. All vaccines due or overdue should be administered according to the recommended CDC immunization schedules during each visit.
Here is a collection of up-to-date federal resources designed to guide vaccine planning during the COVID-19 pandemic, including Interim Guidance for Immunization Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic, as well as COVID-19 Vaccination Clinical & Professional Resources.
CDC offers education and training programs for healthcare personnel, many with continuing education credits/contact hours available. A variety of topics and formats, based on vaccine recommendations made by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice (ACIP), are available. These include:
The North Carolina Immunization Branch also hosts trainings and offers other resources including a quality improvement program for healthcare providers and a listing of courses designed to meet annual VFC educational requirement.
Review the basics of the NCIP, learn how to join and what’s required of an enrolled provider. Access links to important documents like the NCIP Coverage Criteria, NCIP Coverage Criteria Supplement and memos from the Immunization Branch, vaccine storage and handling resources, vaccine information statements and resources on reporting vaccine preventable diseases in North Carolina.
A printable guide to everything you need to know about the NCIP and NCIR.
i. Table of Contents (Updated June 2018)
I. Contact Information (Updated August 2, 2022)
II. NCIP Program
Information (Updated August 03, 2022)
III. Clinical and Administrative
(Updated September 22, 2022)
IV. Storage & Handling (Updated August 03, 2021)
V. Communicable
Disease Reporting & Law (Updated April 20, 2021)
VI. Resources
(Updated January 2018)
VII. North Carolina Immunization Registry
(NCIR) (Updated March 2022)
Learn about the NCIR and how it can help your practice track immunizations and identify patients who need vaccinations.