non-medical prescribing


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non-medical prescribing

A term of art for any prescribing in the UK by a healthcare professional other than by a doctor or dentist. Non-registered staff in health and social care can administer medicines if appropriately prescribed on a case-by-case, patient-specific basis, which is generally governed by local policy.
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Echoes of this dominance can still be found in the medical professions continued opposition to non-medical prescribing.
Is it time to re-examine the doctor-nurse relationship since the introduction of the independent nurse prescriber?
Regardless of the physiotherapy prescribing model that may be enacted In the future, content of non-medical prescribing papers will require the theoretical knowledge and practice components that align with the seven competency domains detailed In the National Prescribing Service (NPS) Better Choices Better Health document (National Prescribing Service Limited, 2012).
Non-medical prescribing--implications for physiotherapy education in Australia and New Zealand
Seeing the first cohort of independently-prescribing physiotherapists graduate from the Non-Medical Prescribing course is the latest milestone in this achievement.
Physios all set to prescribe drugs; TRAINED FOR RULE CHANGE TO SPEED TREATMENT
Since this time, non-medical prescribing has extended further from the development of Patient Group Directions--the closest parallel to standing orders in New Zealand--into more widespread supplementary (9,10) and independent prescribing.
Standing orders extend rural nursing practice and patient access; there are few reports about the use of standing orders in New Zealand. A study in Opotiki sheds light on how standing orders can be used safely and increase patients' access to services
Non-medical prescribing was finally initiated in the UK in autumn 1994, over 15 years after the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) first published evidence of the case for nurse prescribing.
Nurse prescribing in HIV: opportunities and threats
It draws on summaries of product characteristics, clinical advisors, the literature, systematic reviews, consensus guidelines, reference sources, statutory and pricing information, comments from readers and industry, virtual user groups, and market research to detail general information on clinical conditions, drugs, and preparations by body system, as well as aspects of prescribing, the emergency treatment of poisoning, drug interactions, borderline substances, cautionary and advisory labels for dispensed medicines, intravenous infusions for neonatal intensive care, other formularies, non-medical prescribing, and manufacturers.
BNF for Children 2014-2015
Non-medical prescribing (NMP), specifically the V100 qualification, has been an inherent part of health visitor and district nurse training since 1999 (While and Biggs, 2004).
Developing health visitor prescribing
of West England, UK) assemble 14 chapters on non-medical prescribing by UK prescribing specialists, nurses, pharmacists, health and social care specialists, and pharmacologists.
Independent and supplementary prescribing; an essential guide, 2d ed
A report making recommendations about the development of non-medical prescribing in Wales has been issued to health boards.
New school nursing service to meet the health needs of children; Tina Donnelly reflects on a busy six months for nursing in Wales and considers the challenges ahead: Monday, 26 July 2010 THEPROFESSIONALS
The papers work well together to describe how the practitioner, patient and pharmaceutical regimen interrelate, covering basic pharmacology, patient-centered care and concordance, ethics, the public health context, clinical governance for non-medical prescribing, palliative care, mental health aspects and emergency care.
Towards prescribing practice
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