National Immunization Awareness Month

National Immunization Awareness Month (NIAM) is observed annually in August to highlight the importance of routine vaccinations. Use these resources to help you discuss routine vaccinations with your patients and caregivers during NIAM and throughout the year.

CEU Opportunities

“You Call the Shots”

is an interactive, web-based immunization training course from the CDC. It consists of a series of modules that discuss vaccine-preventable diseases and explain the latest recommendations for vaccine use. Each module provides learning opportunities, self-test practice questions, reference and resource materials, and an extensive glossary.

Pneumonia Vaccine Highlights

Helpful Qsource Resources for Promoting Pneumonia Vaccine
in ESRD Patients

The Pneumococcal Vaccine Timing for Adults resource provides easy-to-understand tables for understanding current pneumonia vaccine recommendations and timing.

I Got My Shot: Dialysis Patient Vaccination Card is a patient resource to help document and track vaccinations received outside the dialysis clinic.

This brief video includes information shared by a clinician regarding the importance of adherence to pneumonia vaccination guidelines and recommendations.

Other Resources

• Use this resource during huddles to increase staff knowledge of pneumonia and the vaccine. It provides facts and questions to facilitate a group discussion to increase the number of patients receiving a pneumonia vaccine.
• These CDC resources can help healthcare professionals recommend and administer pneumococcal vaccines, as well as answer patient questions.
• The Pneumococcal Disease in Adults and the Vaccines to Prevent It resource is a helpful tool to display in dialysis clinics to understand pneumococcal disease and the importance of vaccinations to prevent it.
• The free PneumoRecs VaxAdvisor mobile app offered by the CDC helps vaccination providers quickly and easily determine which pneumococcal vaccines a patient needs and when.

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Meghan VanSlyke

Quality Improvement Advisor

Stacy Dorris

Quality Improvement Advisor