The pharmacy must maintain minimum staffing during vaccination service periods to ensure patient safety in post-vaccination monitoring and adverse event management: Ideally, at least two pharmacists will be available on-site during any immunisation period, and where this is not possible, the pharmacy must have additional staff holding a current first aid and CPR certificate that can assist with follow up care or management of an emergency situation; and Workflow must allow the pharmacist conducting immunisations to be able to provide uninterrupted care to individual patients during assessment, vaccine administration and follow up care.
The pharmacy must maintain minimum staffing during vaccination service periods to ensure patient safety in post-vaccination monitoring and adverse event management: Ideally, at least two pharmacists will be available on-site during any immunisation period, and where this is not possible, the pharmacy must have additional staff holding a current first aid and CPR certificate that can assist with follow up care or management of an emergency situation; and Workflow must allow the pharmacist conducting immunisations to be able to provide uninterrupted care to individual patients during assessment, vaccine administration and follow up care.
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