The new normal. As clinicians, it is important to have new plans for how we're going to enjoy our lives, enjoy each other, and continue to care for our patients the best way we can. Our patients count on us to be their trusted caregivers.

Santina Wheat MD, MPH, FAAFP and Marian R. Sassetti, MD, FAAFP discuss the importance of our interactions with patients to show we are thinking about their health and disease prevention. This includes mainstreaming COVID-19 vaccinations and maintaining protections to keep patients healthy.

Rather than isolating COVID-19, they share ways they are integrating these conversations as part of the normal discussions about immunizations and preventative health.

They remind us that as trusted caregivers, if we don't bring something up, it doesn't seem important. So, the more we bring it up, the more important it becomes.

Topics include:

• Integrating COVID vaccines into day-to-day medicine going forward since so many of our patients have moved on and resumed "normal life"
• Reminding patients that COVID remains a threat, if not to them, to other people they care about
• Discussing all vaccinations – especially with parents since there are so many childhood immunizations
• The importance of promoting and talking about the vaccine and boosters Normalizing wearing masks for more than just COVID

Objectives:

• Identify ways of discussing and adjusting to the “new normal” with patients
• Review the importance of knowing where vaccines are available
• Discuss how primary care clinicians can continue to improve vaccine confidence and uptake, even if they don’t provide the COVID-19 vaccines in their clinic

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