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Nurse practitioners say they are ‘completely overlooked’ for COVID-19 vaccination rollout due to ‘supervision’ requirement
Highly-skilled nurses say they are frustrated they have been locked out of the COVID-19 vaccination roll-out in Australia due to a government requirement that they must be supervised in order to administer the vaccine.
Key points:
- Nurse practitioners say they are frustrated by the requirement that they must be supervised
- Under the federal government’s vaccine rollout, other health care providers — including pharmacists — can administer the vaccination
- The Australian College of Nurse Practitioners says it has contacted the federal government with their concerns
Nurse practitioners undertake years of extra study and intense training to allow them to administer vaccinations and prescribe medications.
But under the federal government’s…
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