Pharmacist-administered immunizations: What does your state allow?

Abstract

As trusted and highly accessible health care providers, pharmacists are well positioned to increase the public's access to immunizations. The use of pharmacists to administer immunizations has evolved rapidly over the past 2 decades. In 1995, only nine states allowed pharmacists to immunize. Today, pharmacists have authority to administer immunizations in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.1,2 Although the extent of pharmacists' authority varies by state, great progress has been made in modernizing states' scope of practice laws and regulations to allow pharmacists to increase immunization rates across the lifespan, while working in coordination and collaboration with the rest of the immunization neighborhood.