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Immunization Training for Pharmacists

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This comprehensive practice-based continuing pharmacy education program is designed to meet state regulations for pharmacist immunizers and prepare you for the fall immunization season.
 
Requirements for successful completion:

  1. Complete the online home study materials by signing in with the username and password provided in your confirmation email.  View or read the activities, successfully complete the post test learning assessments and print a statement of completion for all online activities.  You must present all copies of your statements of completion to attend the live session. 
    1. Vaccine-Related Immunity basics
    2. Public Health Impact
    3. Blood-borne Pathogen Awareness and OSHA Standard
    4. Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Rotavirus, Haemophilus influenzae Type b, Measles Mumps and Rubella, and Varicella
    5. Diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis, meningococcal, human papilloma virus
    6. Influenza Disease and Vaccines and Pneumococcal Disease and Vaccines
    7. Vaccine Adverse Reaction Management

  2. Attend and successfully complete the live activities to be held at:

    The University of Connecticut
    West Hartford Branch
    1798 Asylum Ave
    West Hartford, CT
    Library Building Room 404
    Schedule (October 24 ):
    8am – registration
    8:30-10:30am – Immunization Schedule Workshop
    10:30-10:45am – break
    10:45-11:45am – Establishing a Pharmacy-based Immunization Program Part 1
    11:45am-12:30pm – Lunch
    12:30pm-1:30pm – Establishing a Pharmacy-based Immunization Program Part 2

    1:30pm-3:00pm – Immunization Technique Workshop and Wrap-up
  3. Please note: you must complete and maintain CPR certification, at your own expense and coordination, in order to fulfill the state requirements for a pharmacist immunizer.  This will NOT be offered with this program.

A total of 15 hours (including 5 live credits and 1 law credit) of practice-based continuing education credit will be issues upon successful completion of all required activities.
See the brochure for information and registration.
Email Jill.Fitzgerald@uconn.edu or m.tartsinis@uconn.edu with questions

Faculty Disclosure:
In accordance with the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) Standards for Commercial Support, The University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy requires that faculty disclose any relationship that the faculty may have with commercial entities whose products or services may be mentioned in the activity. 

Mr Tomas Buckley, Dr Lauren Schlesselman and Dr Jennifer Girotto do not have any actual or potential conflicts of interest associated with this CPE activity.

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