Tag: nurse
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The best way to hold your child whilst they get vaccinated.
What is the best way to hold your child as they get their vaccination?
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Merry Vaxmas!
Someone at the vaccination clinic has repurposed used Pfizer ampoules as Xmas lights. Very cool. I spent today learning to work in the pharmacy section of our vaccination super clinic. The standard adult dose for Comirnaty (Pfizer) vaccine is 0.3 ml. It arrives as a vial with a concentrated amount that we then dilute down […]
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Downtime
After a hectic couple of weeks working at a local vaccination ‘super clinic’, things have throttled back to lockdown life once more. It seems that they have on-boarded a bunch of undergraduate nurses to assist with the vaccination program, and I’m not exactly sure how much my services will be required from this point on. […]
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A jab in the arm.
As I am now working in a COVID vaccination clinic, my mind has been drifting to the pointy end of things of late. Today it suddely dawned on me: We are currently managing the Delta strain of COVID.The vaccine is given into the deltoid muscle of the upper arm. The deltoid muscle is named after […]