I once gave over 50 flu shots in an hour and a half at an offsite clinic as a floater. And I had to draw each vaccine up, help people answer the VAR questionnaire and write down their insurance info. Also had some 7 year olds in there too, which I was fine with but factor in their crying and how much time I spent with them before the administration. Oh and I did this on a Saturday on my own time for one of the big three chains. Later I realized I was part of the problem.
The pharmacy manager later had me paid by the scheduler for 2 hours. But prior to that I did a four hour clinic and wasn’t paid so my expectations were pretty low.
www.theindychannel.com
Another strange insulin case.
Student, mother intend to sue after insulin mix-up at McKenzie Center
A mother and son are seeking accountability after he was one of 16 students mistakenly given insulin instead of a TB test at McKenzie Center for Innovation and Technology on Monday.
laughing @ them kinetics and endogenous insulin factor
Well obviously nothing funny about a medication error
I’m guessing the vial wasn’t empty and was put back into the fridge.
Obviously, you need to keep the vial in the box. Otherwise, the drugs might get switched.
Reading the vial label? Ain’t nobody got time for that!
I am a trusting person but I would never inject someone with syringe that was prepared by a tech without any product check.
Me too it's a matter of getting it right and not trust in fact. Company policy is for the vaccinator to administer only
Had a good story about one of my buddy RPhs tell me about having an intern (@ the time) draw up a zostavax vaccine...RPh replaced with a brand new needle out of anxiety/assurance previous one wasn't frayed (really hard to tell visually sometimes at least). Moral of the story is you can never be too careful especially when at the end of the day you are the one who is ultimately responsible
www.immune.org.nz
www.npr.org
I thought of this story when I read about the Samoan measles epidemic, which has killed 53 people, most of them small children. Apparently, MMR was never mandatory there for school attendance, and it has a bad rap since two babies died last year after getting MMR. However, it wasn't MMR that killed those babies; it was the expired anesthetic agent (not named in this link) that the nurses, who are now in prison, used to reconstitute it!
Infant deaths in Samoa a tragic outcome from error preparing MMR vaccine
The deaths of two infants on 6 July 2018 in Samoa shortly after receiving their MMR immunisations were under investigation by the Samoan Ministry of Health and Samoan Police. However, the inquest was put on hold until the trial of the two nurses who administered the MMR vaccines had been...
And here's a story about the Samoan outbreak.
Samoan Government To Close Its Offices Amid Measles Crisis That Has Left 53 Dead
Forty-eight of the fatalities were children under 4 years old. The number of immunizations plummeted last year after improperly prepared vaccines led to the deaths of two infants.
