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Originally Posted by Kizzy

How's that work then? I looked into how you volunteer as an innoculator and it said you had to be a band 4 nurse .
Will every boots have one of those?

There's no such thing as a band 4 nurse, that would be a Nursing Associate or experienced HCA. The entry band for a registered nurse is B5.

Pharmacists can give medications (obviously) and are at least B6 NHS equivalent, B7 if they're more experienced. They might need some additional training in giving an injection, but then, so will a lot of nurses and other healthcare staff (as not all roles involve needle use).

That said, most pharmacists definitely don't have time to be giving injections themselves at the best of times, so most likely, the big chain pharmacies would hire nurses or nursing associates to do the actual jabbing (a lot of bigger pharmacies will already have one or two on staff).

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

There's no such thing as a band 4 nurse, that would be a Nursing Associate or experienced HCA. The entry band for a registered nurse is B5.

Pharmacists can give medications (obviously) and are at least B6 NHS equivalent, B7 if they're more experienced. They might need some additional training in giving an injection, but then, so will a lot of nurses and other healthcare staff (as not all roles involve needle use).

That said, most pharmacists definitely don't have time to be giving injections themselves at the best of times, so most likely, the big chain pharmacies would hire nurses or nursing associates to do the actual jabbing (a lot of bigger pharmacies will already have one or two on staff).

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