The Quebec Order of Nurses says it wants private nurses to have the right to buy vaccine doses directly from the manufacturer.
The group says nurses are paying excessive prices for vaccines, including swine-flu inoculations, and that the costs are being passed onto clients.
As it stands now, nurses must purchase all their vaccines from the province's pharmacists, which they say is both costly and impractical.
Gyslaine Desrosiers, a spokeswoman for the order of nurses, told a news conference that nurses who work in private clinics have no choice but to buy vaccines from pharmacists.
"If I have to buy one vaccine it's not really a problem," she said on Wednesday.
"But if I have to buy many thousands of vaccines from a pharmacist retailer, we cannot have the good price and sometimes we cannot buy it at all."
The Quebec Order of Pharmacists, meanwhile, is pushing for the status quo.
It says the current system is working just fine but the nurses point out that it's pharmacists who are making a profit on the vaccines.
The health department will hear from both sides and it might change provincial rules to accommodate the nurses.
