Florida Senate - 2011 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 1268
Barcode 577252
LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
Comm: WD .
04/04/2011 .
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The Committee on Health Regulation (Garcia) recommended the
following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Delete lines 23 - 104
4 and insert:
5 (1) A pharmacist Pharmacists may administer, influenza
6 virus immunizations to adults within the framework of an
7 established protocol under a supervising supervisory
8 practitioner who is a physician licensed under chapter 458 or
9 chapter 459, the following:
10 (a) Influenza vaccine to an adult 18 years of age or older.
11 (b) Varicella zoster vaccine to an adult 60 years of age or
12 older.
13 (c) Pneumococcal vaccine to an adult 65 years of age or
14 older.
15 (d) Epinephrine using an autoinjector delivery system to an
16 adult 18 years of age or older who is suffering an anaphylactic
17 reaction.
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19 The Each protocol must shall contain specific procedures for
20 addressing any unforeseen adverse allergic reaction to the
21 vaccine or epinephrine autoinjection influenza virus
22 immunizations.
23 (2) A pharmacist may not enter into a protocol unless he or
24 she maintains at least $200,000 of professional liability
25 insurance and has completed training on the vaccines and
26 epinephrine autoinjection in influenza virus immunizations as
27 provided in this section.
28 (3) A pharmacist who administers a vaccine or epinephrine
29 autoinjection must administering influenza virus immunizations
30 shall maintain and make available patient records using the same
31 standards for confidentiality and maintenance of such records as
32 those that are imposed on health care practitioners under s.
33 456.057. These records must shall be maintained for a minimum of
34 5 years.
35 (4) The decision by a supervising physician supervisory
36 practitioner to enter into a protocol under this section is a
37 professional decision on the part of the physician practitioner,
38 and a person may not interfere with a supervising physician’s
39 supervisory practitioner’s decision to enter as to entering into
40 such a protocol. A pharmacist may not enter into a protocol that
41 is to be performed while acting as an employee without the
42 written approval of the owner of the pharmacy. Pharmacists shall
43 forward immunization records to the department for inclusion in
44 the state registry of immunization information.
45 (5) Any pharmacist seeking to administer a vaccine or
46 epinephrine autoinjection influenza virus immunizations to
47 adults under this section must be certified to administer the
48 vaccine or epinephrine autoinjection influenza virus
49 immunizations pursuant to a certification program approved by
50 the Board of Pharmacy in consultation with the Board of Medicine
51 and the Board of Osteopathic Medicine. The certification program
52 shall, at a minimum, require that the pharmacist attend at least
53 20 hours of continuing education classes approved by the board.
54 The program shall have a curriculum of instruction concerning
55 the safe and effective administration of the vaccines listed in
56 subsection (1) and epinephrine autoinjection influenza virus
57 immunizations, including, but not limited to, potential adverse
58 allergic reactions to the vaccines or epinephrine autoinjection
59 influenza virus immunizations.
60 (6) The written protocol between the pharmacist and
61 supervising physician must include particular terms and
62 conditions imposed by the supervising physician upon the
63 pharmacist relating to the administration of a vaccine or
64 epinephrine autoinjection influenza virus immunizations by the
65 pharmacist. The written protocol must shall include, at a
66 minimum, specific categories and conditions among patients for
67 whom the supervising physician authorizes the pharmacist to
68 administer a vaccine or epinephrine autoinjection influenza
69 virus immunizations. The terms, scope, and conditions set forth
70 in the written protocol between the pharmacist and the
71 supervising physician must be appropriate to the pharmacist’s
72 training and certification for the vaccine or epinephrine
73 autoinjection immunization. A pharmacist Pharmacists who is have
74 been delegated the authority to administer a vaccine or
75 epinephrine autoinjection influenza virus immunizations by the
76 supervising physician must shall provide evidence of current
77 certification by the Board of Pharmacy to the supervising
78 physician. A supervising physician must physicians shall review
79 the administration of the vaccine or epinephrine autoinjection
80 influenza virus immunizations by the pharmacist pharmacists
81 under such physician’s
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85 And the title is amended as follows:
86 Delete lines 4 - 7
87 and insert:
88 are authorized to administer; authorizing pharmacists to
89 administer an epinephrine autoinjection
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