Vaccinating Pregnant Patients to Protect their Newborns from RSV: A Conversation Guide for Pharmacists

This guide is designed to help pharmacists engage in effective conversations with patients about maternal RSV vaccines. Using this conversation guide, you can reduce vaccine hesitancy, educate about the RSV disease burden, safety, and vaccine efficacy, provide counseling tips, and ultimately increase vaccine uptake. This resource will enable pharmacists to have productive, informed discussions with each patient.

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How to Protect Your Baby from RSV

This resource provides education guides covering what is the RSV vaccine, available options, efficacy, safety, and when to refer patient to healthcare provider

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Show You Know: Maternal RSV Vaccination

How much do you know about RSV vaccination for pregnant patients? Take this quiz to enhance your knowledge about RSV vaccination for pregnant patients and learn when to recommend it.

APhA Show You Know: Maternal RSV Immunization | American Pharmacists Association

Pharmacy Perspectives on Maternal RSV Vaccination

The 2024 adult immunization schedule from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that pregnant people receive vaccines, including RSV vaccine to generate passive immunity, which occurs when maternal antibodies are passed to the infant and provide protection. This resource offers insights about current practices for maternal immunization in pharmacy settings, explores pharmacists’ knowledge and perspectives about RSV disease burden in infants and the maternal RSV vaccine, and identifies gaps and opportunities to support the role of pharmacists in maternal immunization for the prevention of RSV in infants.

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For maternal RSV vaccine, provider recommendation mattered

Maternal RSV vaccine was first recommended by CDC last year during the 2023 to 2024 season. In a new MMWR report from CDC, the agency found that provider recommendation for that immunization in particular was associated with higher coverage. This article, published in Pharmacy News, summarizes this information.

For maternal RSV vaccine, provider recommendation mattered (pharmacist.com)

What Patients Need To Know About The Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)

Educational resources on RSV disease and prevention in adults

RSV (pharmacist.com)