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

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