Building a pharmacy workforce from the ground up to support the COVID‐19 vaccine rollout: lessons learned and recommendations.
The COVID‐19 pandemic has required an unprecedented surge in the pharmacy workforce to support mass vaccination hubs. This review discusses the challenges faced while training and credentialing a surge pharmacy workforce and how these challenges were overcome. The process used for training and crede...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Pharmacy Practice & Research Vol. 52; no. 4; pp. 268 - 275 |
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| Formato: | pictorial review tables/charts Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Aug2022
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