Give nurses the opportunity to vaccinate against the Covid-19 will extend coverage vaccine and to reach fragile and isolated people, pleads the National Order of Nurses on Sunday in a column published by the JDD.
“While massive deliveries of vaccines are expected from the end of March, let us not wait to be overwhelmed to put in place impacting public health measures to support these deliveries throughout the territory”, writes its president Patrick Chamboredon in a column co-signed with Gérard Raymond, president of France Assos Santé.
“Inconsistency”
They denounce “ the inconsistency of the last opinion of the Haute Autorité de santé “ on this subject, “All the more blatant inconsistency with respect to the role and skills of nurses, who are recognized players in vaccination and who already have the power to prescribe certain vaccines (especially influenza)”.
According to them, “The obligation to prescribe by a doctor can be an obstacle to the assumption of responsibility”, especially “When there is no attending physician”. They also note other obstacles concerning the mobility of patients, or nurses “ are the last health professionals to go to the homes of patients ”, and“ vaccine reluctance ”in the face of which nurses“ benefit from the confidence of their patients ”and“ can reassure them ”.
“Let us not take the risk of excluding fragile and isolated people from vaccination”, urge the two authors.
“Vaccination is a chance”
Another column published by the Journal du dimanche and signed by several doctors including Karine Lacombe, head of the infectious diseases department at Saint-Antoine hospital in Paris or Bruno Mégarbane, head of the intensive care unit at Lariboisière, call on the French not to not to fear vaccination, including with the AstraZeneca vaccine, suspended in several countries after cases of thrombosis or phlebitis.
“Today there is much more risk of developing a severe form of Covid-19 when you are not vaccinated than of having a thrombosis”, they insist.
“So if your doctor urges you to get vaccinated, and even more so if you are at risk, do not wait”, they conclude, because “Vaccination is a chance”.
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