Standing Orders

[Roger Barr]

Standing Orders: medical care without any care or any medical assessment

WHAT ARE STANDING ORDERS?
Standing orders authorize nurses and other appropriately trained health care personnel, where allowed by state law, to assess a patient’s immunization status and administer vaccinations according to a protocol approved by an institution, physician, or other authorized practitioner. Immunization standing orders work by enabling assessment and vaccination of the patient without the need for clinician examination or direct order from the attending provider at the time of the interaction. Standing orders can be established for the administration of one or more specific vaccines to a broad or narrow set of patients in health care settings such as clinics, hospitals, pharmacies, and long-term care facilities.
WHO IS CONDUCTING THIS PROJECT AND WHAT IS ITS PURPOSE?
Funded by Pfizer, Inc. and developed by the Immunization Action Coalition (IAC), Take A Stand™: Use Standing Orders to Improve Adult Immunization Rates aims to raise national adult immunization rates by increasing the use of standing orders in medical practices. The project is badly needed to address current adult vaccination rates in the U.S. which fall far short of multiple established national goals, such as Healthy People 2020, and include serious racial and ethnic disparities.

[Shannon Nelson]

I wonder if the patient is given the opportunity to say no? It doesn't mention that.
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