Volunteers from the Division of Nursing complete H1N1 vaccination training

Nov 04, 2009

By: Whitney Sessa
barry-news@mail.barry.edu    More than 100 students, faculty and staff from Barry University’s Division of Nursing have completed the H1N1 vaccination training to prepare for vaccine distribution on the university’s Miami Shores campus beginning Friday, Nov 6.

Barry’s Student Health Center has been working closely with the Florida Department of Health, the Miami-Dade Health Department and the Miami Dade Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) to coordinate H1N1 vaccine distribution at Barry University's main campus. Students, faculty and staff who have volunteered to take part in the vaccination effort have registered with the Miami-Dade MRC, a community-based group of medical and non-medical volunteers repsonsible for administering the vaccination training on campus.  

On Wednesday, Oct. 21, Barry volunteers were introduced to the MRC, sponsored throughout the country by the Office of the U.S. Surgeon General and supported in Florida by the Florida Department of Health, and learned about its polices and procedures and its role in the H1N1 vaccination initiative.

Barry University has also recruited about 20 non-medical volunteers from its Miami Shores campus who will also be assisting with the vaccination effort.

On Friday, Nov. 6, the Student Health Center will begin offering the H1N1 vaccine free of charge on Barry's main campus to students, faculty and staff. For more information on the H1N1 vaccine distribution at Barry, visit http://bucwis.barry.edu/healthinfo/.  

The 2009 Influenza A (H1N1) monovalent vaccine has been purchased by the federal government as a means of protecting the public against 2009 H1N1 influenza. It is being made available to immunization providers working in partnership with state and local public health departments to vaccinate individuals for whom the vaccine is recommended.