Barcelona, Oct 2 (EFE).- The Association of Family and Community Nursing of Catalonia (AIFiCC) has denounced that nurses still cannot prescribe vaccines even though they are the ones who administer them.
The association complained this Monday in a statement that the decree that allows nurses to prescribe some products does not include vaccines.
At the beginning of the autumn vaccination campaign, which has already begun in nursing homes and will be expanded to the elderly and vulnerable population from October 16, the AIFiCC has called for vaccine prescription to be included by nurses.
Specifically, the association requests that immunogens that do not appear in the vaccination schedule and that require a prescription to be purchased at the pharmacy can be prescribed, such as the rotavirus vaccine in babies.
The demand responds to the fact that, from the first Vaccine Schedule in Catalonia to the present, most of the actions and activities related to vaccination are carried out mainly by nurses.
The coordinator of the AlFiCC vaccine group, Pepi Estany, has claimed in this sense that the role of the nurse in relation to vaccination, including prescription, should be “normalized.”
During the COVID-19 pandemic, in Catalonia alone, nurses administered 15,992,621 doses, vaccinating 84.3% of the total population, AlFiCC has highlighted.
As of October 16, primary care nurses are expected to administer 1,715,000 doses of flu vaccines. EFE
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2023-10-02 10:10:00
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