COVID-19 Vaccine Information
The
Nevada State Immunization Program (NSIP) works with Nevada’s local
health departments, hospitals, and clinics
to distribute COVID-19 vaccines once available and continues to identify facilities that have the capacity
to properly stock, administer, and maintain COVID-19 vaccine and meet additional federal and
state requirements.
COVID-19 Vaccine Storage and Temperature Monitoring
In order to be approved
by The Nevada State Immunization Program (NSIP) to receive and administer
pandemic vaccines, each facility/branch will be required to:
Have a stand-alone
refrigerator and a stand-alone freezer with digital data loggers.
Monitor the temperatures of the vaccines
twice daily using a data logger that meets NSIP requirements.
Download and submit the data logger data
to NSIP for the first five days upon enrollment. Once temperatures are deemed
acceptable data downloads will occur once per month. Retain the data logger
reports and paper temp logs for 3 years. The facility must submit data logger
reports to NSIP upon request.
If the vaccines are exposed to out of
range temperatures, do not administer the vaccine! Download
the data logger and send the temperature log to NSIP.
Review the submission and consult the
vaccine manufacturer to determine the viability of the vaccines. NSIP staff
must be notified by submitting a Vaccine Incident Report and corresponding data
logger data.
The data logger must be equipped with a
temperature probe or sensor in a buffered material (usually glycol). The probe
must be kept in the middle of the unit with the vaccines to ensure that the
temperature of the air around the vaccines is being recorded.
The data logger must have an active
temperature display on the outside of the unit that can be easily read without
opening the storage unit's door.
It must have continuous temperature
monitoring and recording capabilities and include the capacity to routinely
download data.
The data logger must have a current certificate of
calibration which includes: model/device number serial number, date of
calibration (report or issue date) and confirmation that the instrument passed
testing.
Hospitals that have monitored storage units do
not need data loggers installed as long as the system that monitors the
temperatures can download and print out monthly temperature reports to be sent
to NSI