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With a little research I'm sure that you could find out who should not receive the vaccine. Certain vaccines contain eggs or other ingredients that people may be sensitive to. I would imagine that there would be a form that employees would have to sign as well as information about the vaccine that would be provided to you and employee? Such as, "Do you have an allergy to 1, 2, 3 etc.....Then you should not receive the vaccine because said ingredients are contained in the injection." Does your employer have something like that for you?
Review allergies and any prior reaction to vaccinations with them prior to administration, make sure there is a signed consent and you should be fine. I don't always have complete histories on patients and order vaccines. The health department patients just show up, ask for vaccines, and the RNs there follow the steps above. There isn't much history.
Your responsibility is to recognize any reaction if one does happen and then to follow the proper steps at that point. A patient could always have an unexpected reaction to any medication/vaccine given, even if they had it before. I don't see the difference between vaccines and any other treatment medication you'd give. Follow policy.
sheilav
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I was asked to give the Hep B and Dtap vaccine to any new employee requesting it
I am not comfortable with this, should I have reason to object to doing this.