Florida legislation would allow Pharmacists to Immunize
From the ASCP Senior Care Advocate:
Legislation in the Florida Legislature would allow pharmacists to provide immunizations under a written protocol with the physician. S.B. 2022 passed out of the Senate Committee on Health Regulations, but was amended to allow only influenza immunizations. H.B. 543 is currently awaiting a hearing in the House Health Care Council. ASCP has written a letter of support for both bills and signed on in support of the Florida ASCP Chapter and the Florida Pharmacy Association’s efforts to pass the bill.
I've been able to snag the fulltext of the bill (PDF). I'm not really sure what I think of it. Personally, I have no interest in immunizing anyone. But I suppose other pharmacists might? Would this be covered by professional liability insurance on the off chance something goes wrong?
What do you guys think?
[tags]Medicine, pharmacy, immunization, geriatrics, Florida[/tags]
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Thanks for the information on pharmacists. I don't know, it's hard to think of why they might want to immunize anyone.
We recently wrote an article on pharmacists at Brain Blogger. Pharmacists are self proclaimed "drug experts" and for good reason — they have a Doctor of Pharmacy degree that took fours years to earn and in the process studied a lot of different drugs. But should that give them the right to give out a prescription? Could they accurately identify and treat a disease?
We would like to read your comments on our article. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Kelly
Comment by Kelly — June 29, 2008 @ 3:57 pm