{"id":3182,"date":"2014-09-29T08:12:10","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T14:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/?p=3182"},"modified":"2014-10-31T14:44:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T20:44:04","slug":"pharmacy-students-certified-as-immunizers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2014\/09\/29\/pharmacy-students-certified-as-immunizers\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharmacy students certified as immunizers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ImmunizationsTraining1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3183\" src=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ImmunizationsTraining1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"ImmunizationsTraining1\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ImmunizationsTraining1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ImmunizationsTraining1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Sixty-seven second year pharmacy students enrolled in Pharmaceutical Care II course became certified immunizers recently.\u00a0 The course is taught by Dr. Elisa Greene and Dr. Alisa Spinelli.\u00a0 Utilizing the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery program, students completed 20 hours of self-study, didactic, and skills-based training. Topics included vaccine preventable diseases, the role of pharmacists as vaccine advocates and administrators,\u00a0 legal and regulatory issues, and injection technique. This is the 3rd\u00a0year that students enrolled in the course have participated in the certification program.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Over 50,000 people die from vaccine preventable illnesses in the United States each year.\u00a0Immunization-certified pharmacists have expanded community access to protection against vaccine preventable diseases, such as influenza, shingles, and pneumococcal disease.\u00a0 The Institute of Medicine\u00a0estimates that immunizations, including\u00a0pharmacist-administered\u00a0immunizations, have helped to prevent 14 million infections and 33,000 additional deaths from these conditions each year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ImmunizationsTraining2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3184\" src=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ImmunizationsTraining2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"ImmunizationsTraining2\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ImmunizationsTraining2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ImmunizationsTraining2-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ImmunizationsTraining3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3185\" src=\"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ImmunizationsTraining3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"ImmunizationsTraining3\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ImmunizationsTraining3-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ImmunizationsTraining3-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty-seven second year pharmacy students enrolled in Pharmaceutical Care II course became certified immunizers recently.\u00a0 The course is taught by Dr. Elisa Greene and Dr. Alisa Spinelli.\u00a0 Utilizing the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Pharmacy-Based Immunization Delivery program, students completed 20 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2014\/09\/29\/pharmacy-students-certified-as-immunizers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pharmacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3222,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions\/3222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}