Vincent vaccine clinics when they first opened in December gave her the most hope she had felt since the pandemic hit Indiana in March. Kimberly Wray, a Butler student in her final year of the PharmD program, says working in the St. Lindsay Saum, Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice at Butler
Giving students the opportunity to be helpful and to make an impact is so important.”īutler student Kimberly Wray giving vaccine to Dr. “It’s also a very gratifying experience to provide a vaccine to a patient who is excited to receive it.
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“I think this experience helps students understand how to manage a situation like this in the future,” Carroll says. While the students already know how to give immunizations before ever touching a syringe of the COVID-19 vaccine, the clinics have provided them with valuable learning opportunities. Many other students have volunteered their time over winter break or on weekends. Vincent have been spending half a day each week in the vaccine clinics, administering shots to about 100 people per shift (or working behind the scenes to draw up doses). Many students in Butler’s Pharmacy program take a course to become certified immunizers, so they were already prepared by the time COVID-19 vaccine rollout began in Indiana. They are also gaining experience answering questions patients have about the vaccine, and just being there to provide comfort.” “It’s not only about administering the vaccinations, but also about the types of screening questions they need to ask and what information they need to provide, then what to watch for in terms of side effects or adverse reactions. “I think students are realizing the importance of the training they are receiving in their curriculum, and how to actually apply what they are learning,” she says. Whenever Zeitlin works at the clinics, Butler students are usually there with her. It’s a great experience professionally to be doing something that people actually appreciate.”
“When patients come in,” she says, “they are so grateful that they can get the vaccine. Vincent, regularly teaches immunization courses for students at Butler and has been administering COVID-19 vaccines since January. Deborah Zeitlin ’94, an Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice also based at St. In January 2021, she also helped teach an immunization course (hosted by COPHS and the Indiana Pharmacists Alliance) for pharmacists across the state who were not yet certified to give vaccines.ĭr. Vincent’s clinics from the start, helping organize a practice session for certified immunizers prior to the vaccine rollout. Several other vaccine-certified COPHS faculty have also donated time to giving doses.Ĭarroll was involved in St. Vincent part-time, participating in the vaccine clinics as part of their regular positions. Some Pharmacy Practice faculty members (including Carroll) were already based at St. Since those first few doses, COPHS faculty, students, and alumni have continued stepping up to administer vaccines at a variety of hospitals, pharmacies, and other vaccination sites across the city-applying their skills to help the community protect itself from COVID-19.īutler students and faculty at Ascension St. So it was very exciting to say, ‘Here’s something we can actively and proactively do to help our patients, and to help protect us while we serve our patients.’” “We were seeing surges in case numbers at the time, and there wasn’t a lot of positive news coming out about COVID. “That was probably the most excited and most nervous simultaneously that I have ever been to give a vaccine,” Carroll says about that day, when she also had the chance to vaccinate fellow PharmD graduate Vishal Ooka ’13. Kacey Carroll ’12, who graduated from Butler University’s PharmD program and now serves as an Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice for the College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences (COPHS). Vincent had selected six staff members-including one nurse who treated the hospital’s first COVID-19 patient nine months prior-to receive some of Indiana’s first doses.Īnd on the other side of the syringe was Dr. Total number of ED visits who were seen on the previous calendar day who had a visit related to COVID-19 (meets suspected or confirmed definition or presents for COVID diagnostic testing – do not count patients who present for pre-procedure screening).On December 17, 2020, Indianapolis watched as television stations around the city broadcast a small group of healthcare professionals receiving their COVID-19 vaccines.
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