Recommendations and Guidelines:
Vaccine Administration
For Health Professionals:
Guidelines
- Dosage, Route, Site:
- All ages: Dose, Route, Site, and Needle Size (exit)
- Adults: Dose, Route, Site, Needle Size, and Preparation (exit)
- Vaccine Administration Guidelines
from Pink Book Appendix (includes pictures of sites) - It's Federal Law - use of VISs and more in Pink Book appendix
- Poster: Anatomic Sites-delivery in infants & children (exit)
Available in English and Spanish - Immunization Site Map
- Indications (exit) NEW April 2009
- Questions submitted during immunization broadcasts or through NIPINFO
- Recording vaccine administration
Records for children, teens, & adults - Revised Standards for Immunization Practices
- Report a suspected side effect (VAERS) (exit)
- Provider's Role: Importance of Vaccine Administration and Storage
- Suggestions to improve your immunization services (2 pages) (exit)
Screening and Checklists
- Skills Checklist for Pediatric Immunization
- Adult checklists:
- Screening Questionnaires:
- for Child and Teen Immunization (exit)
- for Adult Immunization (exit)
- IAC's vaccination resources every practice should have (exit)
Storage and handling, how to decide who needs to be vaccinated, how to administer vaccines to patients, federal vaccine recommendations and requirements, etc.
Reference Tables
- Contraindications/Precautions Tables (by condition) UPDATED FEB 2009
- Contraindications to Vaccines Chart (by vaccine)
- Table of Reportable Events after Vaccination
- Qualifications and Aids to Interpretation of Vaccine Injury Table
- Anti-body Live Vaccine Interval Table
- Immunization of Immunocompromised Patients Tables
Summary of ACIP Recommendations on Immunization of Immunocompromised Infants and Children - Vaccine Excipient and Media Summary (Also called formulations)
- Minimum ages and intervals
Comforting Techniques
- Video--"Immunization Techniques" form (exit)
- Comforting Children during Vaccinations:
- Comforting Restraint for Immunizations (flyer)
First page in English and second page in Spanish
Also available: Black and white version for printing (flyer) - Comforting Measures (poster) (exit)
- Comforting Restraint for Immunizations (flyer)
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This page last modified on April 9, 2009
Content last reviewed on October 23, 2006
Content Source: National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases