Motivational Interviewing for Vaccine Conversations

A patient may be hesitant to receive a vaccine for varying reasons. Health care providers should strive to understand these reasons and to offer tailored confidence-building information. With Motivational Interviewing, a provider acknowledges a patient’s autonomy, and meets the patient where they are at, and responds to the patient’s individual level of knowledge, needs, and questions. This approach helps to foster trusting and harmonious healthcare relationships.

Course Objectives:

This course provides education on how to discuss vaccines with vaccine-hesitant patients using Motivational Interviewing (MI).
Upon completion, students should be able to:

  • Understand vaccine recommendation approaches and their intersection with MI

  • Use the Stages of Change Model to assess a patient’s readiness to receive a vaccination

  • Apply MI and associated skills to build a patient’s motivation towards receiving a vaccine

Topics covered in each module:

  • Module 1: Vaccine recommendation approaches, Introduction to Motivational Interviewing, The Stages of Change Model
  • Module 2: The MI Spirit, Practitioner Characteristics, Change Talk, DARN , OARS, EPE, Readiness rulers

Continuing education credits

In support of improving patient care, Alaska Native Medical Center (ANMC) is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for   Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide   continuing education for the health care team.

CPE Credit will be posted to the online CPE Monitor system within 60 days following completion of each activity when applicable.  

The ANMC Joint Accreditation CE Program Portfolio additionally supports Behavioral Health (APA), Social Work (ASWB-ACE), and Dietitians (CPEU).

Contact Hours: ANMC designates this activity for a maximum of 2.0 contact hours. Enduring access expires for credit December 18, 2027.

Financial Disclosures: This learning opportunity only addresses non-clinical topics, i.e., no relevant financial relationships or commercial bias are possible.

Requirements for Successful Completion: To receive CE credit please make sure you have actively engaged in the entirety of the three learning modules, completing the quiz and data entry in the final steps. To claim accredited continuing education credit once learning is completed access the electronic feedback and reflective evaluation form found here: https://forms.gle/Ejg5xzxViiUXj23w5