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New Issues of Needle Tips and Vaccinate Adults Now Available
March 2015
Technically Speaking
Monthly Column by Deborah Wexler, MD
Technically Speaking is a monthly column written by IAC’s Executive Director Deborah Wexler, MD. The column is featured in The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Vaccine Education Center’s (VEC’s) monthly e-newsletter for healthcare professionals. Technically Speaking columns cover practical topics in immunization delivery such as needle length, vaccine administration, cold chain, and immunization schedules.
Check out a recent issue of Vaccine Update for Healthcare Providers. The VEC e-newsletter keeps providers up to date on vaccine-related issues and includes reviews of recently published journal articles, media recaps, announcements about new resources, and a regularly updated calendar of events.
TECHNICALLY SPEAKING
New Issues of Needle Tips and Vaccinate Adults Now Available
Published March 2015
Information presented in this article may have changed since the original publication date. For the most current immunization recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, visit www.immunize.org/acip/acip_vax.asp.
Needle Tips is a free publication offered by the Immunization Action Coalition (IAC). Written for health professionals who provide immunizations to children, teens or adults, the quarterly publication offers timely immunization information, photocopy-ready handouts and expert answers to immunization-related questions. Vaccinate Adults is a concise presentation of the content from each Needle Tips issue, so that providers who immunize only adults, do not need to search through the issue of Needle Tips to locate relevant articles.
The March 2015 issues of each were recently released. The current issue of Needle Tips includes:
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Resources to help with the measles outbreak
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Summary tables of child and teen as well as adult immunization schedules
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Charts for route, site and needle size for administering vaccines
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A new HPV vaccine handout for young adults
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Pneumococcal vaccine handouts
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Standing orders handouts and templates
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Statistics demonstrating that vaccines work
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Parent handout highlighting the top ten reasons to vaccinate their children
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Screening checklists for contraindications and precautions to vaccines
Vaccinate Adults contains only those articles that pertain to adult immunizations.
