Immunization Certified Jobs

Federal law answers part of it and state law the rest. Under the PREP Act declaration a pharmacist may order and administer, and a pharmacy intern or pharmacy technician may administer while the supervising pharmacist stays readily and immediately available, with both the intern and the technician licensed or registered by their state board. The declaration reaches the ACIP schedule for ages 3 to 18, seasonal influenza from age 3 up, and FDA-authorized or licensed COVID-19 vaccines for ages 3 and over, and it preempts contrary state law for the influenza and COVID-19 vaccines through December 31, 2029. Everything outside that is each state's own rules.

No. Under the same federal declaration a pharmacist, intern or technician administering covered vaccines holds a current certificate in basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation, which is the layperson-level card and not the provider-level BLS one, and interns and technicians complete a practical training program approved by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education. Pharmacists have their own training and reporting duties in the same paragraph, so nobody in the pharmacy is covered by a certificate alone.

Pharmacists, interns and technicians. APhA runs one program for pharmacists and student pharmacists and a separate 6-hour one for technicians with Washington State University, split between self-study and a live seminar. State authority is tracked separately by NASPA, which keeps the current map of what pharmacists, interns and technicians may administer in each state, so the same certificate line means a different scope depending on the job and the state it sits in.