Healthcare provider awareness, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors regarding the role of pharmacists as immunizers.
Hum Vaccin Immunother
; 18(7): 2147356, 2022 12 30.
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| ID: mdl-36472081
In most Canadian provinces and territories, pharmacists are trained and able to give vaccines alongside traditional immunizers like doctors and nurses. In this study, we surveyed the views of immunizing professionals (pharmacists, doctors, and nurses) in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick about pharmacists giving vaccines. Healthcare providers were invited to do our online survey by their professional associations, provincial health authorities, and through posts on social media. Healthcare providers generally supported pharmacists giving vaccines, but not without some conditions from nurses, doctors, and some pharmacists themselves. We found all three professions to be very vaccine positive but learned that pharmacists experience barriers to giving vaccines that their nurse and doctor colleagues do not such as working by themselves, volume of work, time, compensation, and record-keeping. We highlight the importance of collaboration between immunizing professionals, acknowledgment of pharmacists' training as immunizers, a uniform funding model for all immunization providers, and a central and accessible vaccine registry. We also suggest that until power dynamics and complexities between professions are addressed in meaningful and structural ways, we might not enjoy the full benefits of pharmacists as immunizers. We hope these findings are useful in places where pharmacists cannot yet vaccinate and where pharmacists' scopes of practice are in the process of widening to include immunization.
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Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Farmacéuticos
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Vacunas
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
Límite:
Adult
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Child
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Hum Vaccin Immunother
Año:
2022
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Canadá
Pais de publicación:
Estados Unidos