One of the most important steps for administering vaccines is the use
of precautions. The person giving vaccines should wash his hands with soap,
sterilizer or alcohol based waterless antiseptic. This step should be repeated
every time the administrator cleans or diaper the patient.
Except from clinic policies, the administrator who injects vaccines
into the patient does not needs to wear gloves unless the administrator is
personally in contact with the patient’s body fluid. But most often the patient
have open lesions on the hands that’s why it should be the policy of every
clinic to made it compulsory for every administrator who injects vaccines to
wear gloves to decrease the risk factors. It should be acknowledged that gloves
do not prevent diseases transferred from needle stick injuries. (Vaccine
Administration) The administrators should use sterilize syringes and needles; the more
convincing is to use disposable needles or syringes as they have no risk factor
for transferring disease of one person to another.
The syringes or needles should be auto destructible. The needles which
are used once should not be in the condition to use it second time. This method
is used to decrease the risk for contamination of the needles or syringes.
The administrator should not mix the vaccines unless it has been
allowed by the FDA. The administrator can only combine the vaccines under the
condition of patient’s age and explicitly specified on the FDA approved or
licensed product list. There are a few number of vaccines which can be combined
that’s why the administrator should keep this in priority to not to combine the
vaccines. (CDC)
In the end the method to destroy the contaminated vaccines is also one
of the important points of the precautions. The method of autoclaving is one of
them. This method has a definite process. In this method the syringes or
needles are steamed in high temperature. The other method is incineration. In
this method a temperature of 850oC is to be maintained. Now this
high temperature is affordable by the normal health care centres. Only trained
persons should do this process. (World Health Organization)
References
Vaccine Administration, retrieved from, http://www.ecbt.org/media/pdf/NVrMissAShotOfficeImmunizationStrategiesChptr3.pdf
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