The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
Nurses and medical assistants play a key role in improving vaccine acceptance, as they come in contact with parents throughout the...
Feb 10, 2020 | Kim Rodgers
A new continuing education (CE) activity from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) gives nurses, medical assistants...
Feb 10, 2020 | Kimberly Sharpe-Scott
HealthHIV recently launched the HIV Prevention Certified Provider™ (HIV PCP) Program. The HIV PCP is an online, self-paced continuing...
Nov 27, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop a new...
Nov 22, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has established a Food Safety Dashboard designed to track the impact of the seven...
Oct 01, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
CDC released results from the 2018 National Immunization Survey-Teen (NIS-Teen) in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which...
Sep 12, 2019 | Kimberly Sharpe-Scott
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a new Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) titled Injection...
Aug 02, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and Medscape are proud to...
Jul 29, 2019 | Kerry Premo
Proper vaccine administration is critical for ensuring that vaccines are both safe and effective. To help health professionals with...
Jul 02, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
Nurses and medical assistants play a key role in improving vaccine acceptance, as they come in contact with parents throughout the office visit. CDC has launched a new free Continuing Education (CE) activity called How Nurses and Medical Assistants Can Foster a Culture of Immunization in the Practice. The new CE teaches practical strategies to improve […]
A new continuing education (CE) activity from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) gives nurses, medical assistants and other healthcare professionals (HCPs) practical strategies to improve vaccination rates in their practice. The CE demonstrates how to deliver clear and concise vaccine recommendations and address parents’ frequently asked questions. Research shows that healthcare...
HealthHIV recently launched the HIV Prevention Certified Provider™ (HIV PCP) Program. The HIV PCP is an online, self-paced continuing medical education (CME curriculum composed of five free e-learning courses in HIV prevention. Clinicians who complete the curriculum receive the “HIV Prevention Certified Provider” national designation and certificate, recognizing competency in the...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop a new online course, Wildfire Smoke and Your Patients’ Heath, with continuing education credit provided by the CDC. The free course includes sections on: Health effects Lifestages and populations at greater risk of experiencing health effects Air […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has established a Food Safety Dashboard designed to track the impact of the seven foundational rules of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), measure their progress, and help us continue to refine our implementation.
CDC released results from the 2018 National Immunization Survey-Teen (NIS-Teen) in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which provides the latest estimates of vaccination rates among adolescents in the United States.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a new Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) titled Injection Practices and Sexual Behaviors Among Persons with Diagnosed HIV Infection Who Inject Drugs in the United States, 2015–2017. Approximately 10% of HIV-positive people who inject drugs (PWID) engaged in distributive injection equipment sharing; nonsterile syringe...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and Medscape are proud to introduce a new FREE continuing education (CE) activity. The goal of this activity is to describe the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommendations for use of the hepatitis A vaccine for persons experiencing homelessness. The ACIP […]
Proper vaccine administration is critical for ensuring that vaccines are both safe and effective. To help health professionals with this, CDC now has an e-Learn on vaccine administration. Vaccine administration errors happen more often than you might think. Of the average 36,000 reports received annually by the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), about 1,500 […]
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