Flu shot without CPR certificate

[VictorOfHungerGames]

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Management wants me to give flu shots to employees but my CPR certification expired last week. Could I or should I still give it?

 

[Rouelle]

Management wants me to give flu shots to employees but my CPR certification expired last week. Could I or should I still give it?

No

 

[owlegrad]

I don’t know every state but in Fl you can’t give vaccines without up to date CPR. I don’t know the penalty for violating but presumably you don’t want to risk fines, points, or license revocation. Why not just tell ‘managment’ that your CPR lapsed?

 

[zelman]

Did you forget how to do CPR? Is the certification required by your state or company? If both are “no” then give the shots and recertifications ASAP. If anything above is a “yes” you might need to take some unplanned time off to get certified now.

 

[Rouelle]

To clarify, my “no” is because my state requires CPR certification to administer vaccinations. I assumed all states required the same, but @zelman post seems to suggest otherwise...

 

[maria1oh]

If it was cvs you would have been getting constant reminders to renew

 

[zelman]

To clarify, my “no” is because my state requires CPR certification to administer vaccinations. I assumed all states required the same, but @zelman post seems to suggest otherwise...

Then don’t do it.

 

[VictorOfHungerGames]

I don’t know every state but in Fl you can’t give vaccines without up to date CPR. I don’t know the penalty for violating but presumably you don’t want to risk fines, points, or license revocation. Why not just tell ‘managment’ that your CPR lapsed?

I did. Did not give it. Told them I'll get my CPR certificate updated. They ended up letting someone else do it. Btw, doesn't our immunization certification also expire? and we have to do CE to update? I thought we do immunization CE every 2 years, no?

 

[zelman]

I did. Did not give it. Told them I'll get my CPR certificate updated. They ended up letting someone else do it. Btw, doesn't our immunization certification also expire? and we have to do CE to update? I thought we do immunization CE every 2 years, no?

Not in my states

 

[owlegrad]

I did. Did not give it. Told them I'll get my CPR certificate updated. They ended up letting someone else do it. Btw, doesn't our immunization certification also expire? and we have to do CE to update? I thought we do immunization CE every 2 years, no?

I let mine lapse since I work LTC now but yeah I think you are right.

 

[BidingMyTime]

I did. Did not give it. Told them I'll get my CPR certificate updated. They ended up letting someone else do it. Btw, doesn't our immunization certification also expire? and we have to do CE to update? I thought we do immunization CE every 2 years, no?

It depends when you first got your immunization certifications. Old fogies like me who got it, got certificates that never expire. All the certificates given out nowaways do expire (I'm not sure what year was the changeover.)

But yeah, in my state CPR certification is required to give immunizations. So no, don't give an immunization if your certificate is expired. Be sure to mark on your calendar when your certificate expires in 2 years, so you can be reminded to get it renewed.

 

[Cleaveland]

I don’t know every state but in Fl you can’t give vaccines without up to date CPR. I don’t know the penalty for violating but presumably you don’t want to risk fines, points, or license revocation. Why not just tell ‘managment’ that your CPR lapsed?

Any idea how long it takes the Department of Health to process the paperwork down here in FL? Lol. I was immunizing as an intern since 2015, just had to do it again as a pharmacist.