DISCUSSION POST1
As mentioned in the guideline provided by the Victoria health care department, the
cold chain system is developed and implemented by the government so that while
transferring or storing the vaccines, the temperature could be maintained within 2°C to 8°C.
This is considered as the optimum temperature while transferring or storing the vaccines so
that while using these for patient administration, the viability of these vaccines could be
maintained (Health.vic.gov.au 2019). However, if this guideline is violated, this also provides
a regulation in which the breaching of this recommended temperature is mentioned. In this
discussion post, discussion about one such critical condition has been mentioned so that the
breaching related to the condition could be identified (Health.vic.gov.au 2019). Further, the
discrepancy between the best practice and case scenario would be mentioned in this scenario.
Finally, strategies to make the process comply with the guidelines would be mentioned in this
discussion post.
In this case scenario, it was mentioned that in a lab that operates Monday to Friday, I
observed the vaccine fridge is at its maximum temperature which is 10°C hence, it is evident
that these vaccines are in 10°C for last two days and hence the cold chain breaching has
occurred in this situation. Therefore, this is the discrepancy between the best practice and the
case scenario that the vaccine fridge temperature is not monitored regularly, due to which
such critical condition occurred. Another discrepancy that occurred in the care process, when
one general physician took two of the vaccines from that fridge for patient administration,
without any inspection or bleaching reporting (Najjar et al. 2019). Hence, in such condition, it
is important that the professionals working in the lab are educated about the cold chain
breaching and through the process, they would be informed about the process so that they
could report this condition properly for detailed investigation.

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