This competency acts in accordance with legal and high ethical standards in all aspects of immunization practice.
Learning Objectives
The health professional will be able to perform the following:
- Discuss the implications of basic ethical principles, including individual’s right, confidentiality, privacy, informed consent, and informed refusal.
- Describe the legal requirements relevant to immunization administration, documentation, recording, and reporting.
- Describe the legal requirements in the province/territory of immunization practice that relate to immunization status and exclusion from daycare, school, workplace, or other settings.
- Identify his/her own professional scope of practice as it relates to immunization (jurisdiction, organization,practice setting – institutions, etc.).
- Discuss the ethical issues arising from:
- mandatory versus voluntary immunization; and
- targeted versus universal immunization.
