• Fosheze@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I don’t see why not. Like I said, they’re still a nurse. Being a midwife is additional training on top of that. At most hospitals when they aren’t midwifing then they are still just doing other nurse stuff elsewhere. My mom is literally a midwife but she also frequently works shifts in various other departments. It doesn’t take anything special to administer vaccines. Any nurse can give someone a shot.

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      10 months ago

      I don’t see why when there are pediatricians.

      And this wasn’t someone doing side work at a hospital, this was a charlatan selling fake vaccine records as a business.

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        10 months ago

        Your original comment that I was replying to asked why a midwife could give vaccines when that was a job for nurses and pediatricians. I was pointing out that midwifes are nurses. I wasn’t responding to the article. As far as administering a vaccine, which is what I assumed your second comment was talking about, any nurse can do that. Even a pharmacy intern can administer vaccines.

        The fact that this person is a quack has nothing to do with what a midwife is or weather they can administer vaccines.

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          10 months ago

          I am not arguing it’s hard to administer vaccines. I’m arguing, in this anti-vaccine world, who do we trust to actually do it and document it properly?