Answer:
Doctors, nurses, physician assistants, and office staff all play a key role in establishing and maintaining a practice-wide commitment to communicating effectively about vaccines and maintaining high vaccination rates. You can all answer parents’ questions, provide educational materials, and ensure that families make and keep vaccine appointments.
Parents consider their child’s healthcare professionals to be their most trusted source of information when it comes to vaccines. This is true even for parents who are vaccine-hesitant or who have considered delaying one or more vaccines. Therefore, you have a critical role in helping parents choose vaccines for their child.
With all you do, you may feel that long vaccine conversations are stressful when you also need to check physical and cognitive milestones and have a full schedule of patients. Because of this, we designed this resource to guide you with conversational techniques and resources for discussing vaccines with parents.
Explanation:
immunizations or concerns about vaccines, well-child
visits can be stressful for parents. As their infant’s health
care provider, you remain parents’ most trusted source of
information about vaccines. This is true even for parents with
the most questions and concerns. Your personal relationship
uniquely qualifies you to help support parents in understanding
and choosing vaccinations
