In this communications guide, Ann Christiano and Jack Barry from the Center for Public Interest Communications at the University of Florida share 8 Principles of COVID-19 Vaccine Communications.
In this video series on YouTube, black doctors, nurses, and researchers dispel misinformation and provide accessible facts.
On this webpage, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains how jurisdictions can ensure vaccine access for staff and residents in long-term care settings.
In this video a certified nursing assistant shares her personal story of overcoming vaccine-related fears, deciding to take the vaccine, and encouraging her colleagues to do the same.
On this webpage, CDC provides Interim Clinical Considerations for Use of COVID-19 Vaccines Currently Authorized in the United States.
These interim considerations provide information on preparing for the initial assessment and management of anaphylaxis following COVID-19 vaccination.
This guidance for infection prevention and control for healthcare personnel during COVID-19 applies to all U.S. settings where healthcare is delivered, including home health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated select healthcare infection prevention and control (IPC) recommendations in response to COVID-19 vaccination, which are now summarized in this guidance.
This guide outlines steps to safely and correctly administer an intramuscular injection, like the COVID-19, flu, pneumonia, and shingles vaccines.
This guide is designed to help nursing home leaders build COVID-19 vaccine confidence among CNAs and overcome barriers to vaccination by applying insights from social, behavioral and cognitive science.
This article features answers to common questions on the safety of the COVID-19 vaccine.
This guide assists nursing home facility leadership with having effective one-on-one conversations with staff on vaccines and delivering a standardized curriculum to help raise staff awareness of accurate information about the COVID-19 vaccines.
Find information and resources from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to help long-term care providers when coordinating access to COVID-19 vaccines on-site or in the local community.
This brief video from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) highlights long-term care staff who moved from being initially uncertain about receiving the COVID-19 vaccine to accepting it and encouraging their peers to do the same.
This webpage provides information on on reporting options, data collection forms, form instructions, archived and upcoming trainings on the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Long-Term Care Facility (LTCF) COVID-19 Module.
This webpage provides an overview of the causes and frequency of post-COVID conditions for healthcare providers.
This series of two learning modules features strategies to help nursing home teams minimize infection risk in their facility.
This is a checklist of questions for potential COVID-19 vaccine recipients with guidance on how to proceed with administration of the COVID-19 vaccine.
This 30-minute course reviews best practices for effective COVID-19 vaccine administration and addresses recent COVID-19 recommendations presented by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
This webpage provides COVID-19 data for various populations and guidance on how to slow the spread.
This Spanish-language template letter can be used by long-term care facilities to gain consent from residents' family members to vaccinate.
This Spanish-language template letter can be used by long-term care facilities to gain consent from staff members to administer the vaccine.
This organized curriculum and step-by-step facilitator guide presents fact-based information in a 10-minute module format to nursing home staff on the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines.
This PowerPoint slideshow includes information about vaccine hesitancy and how to counteract it.
This template letter can be used by long-term care facilities to gain consent from residents' family members to vaccinate.
This template letter can be used by long-term care facilities to gain consent from staff members to administer the vaccine.