in the past two decades, the number of countries giving the permission of prescribing to nurses has increased. nowadays, in countries such as australia, south africa, ireland, finland, canada, norway, new zealand, sweden, britain, spain, and america, nurses have the legal right to prescribe medicine. nurse prescribing can enhance the quality of care, save patients’ time and money, promote occup...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To evaluate the diabetes nurse specialist prescribing project with the aim of determining whether diabetes nurse specialist prescribing is safe and effective and to inform the implementation and extension of registered nurse prescribing. BACKGROUND Registered nurses in many countries are able to prescribe medicines, but in New Zealand, prior to the diabetes nurse specialis...

AIM To identify some of the factors influencing effective independent nurse prescribing within a surgical high-dependency unit. METHOD An audit methodology was used to record the personal prescribing practice of a critical care nurse following the completion of a course in independent and supplementary prescribing. RESULTS The main factors influencing effective independent nurse prescribing...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To examine the prescribing practices of nurse supplementary prescribing in diabetes. BACKGROUND Nurses in several roles are involved in the management of medicines for patients with diabetes. Nurse prescribing should help optimise these roles. Nurses in the UK have virtually the same independent prescribing rights as doctors. There is little or no evidence on the extent to...

Nurse prescribing has become established in the UK, though the number of prescriptions written in primary care in 2006 by nurses remained small at 0.8% of the total. Healthcare teams employ nurse prescribers to streamline the service and improve patients' access to medicines. As the range of medicines available to nurses for prescribing increases, so questions about the need for more training i...

BACKGROUND A growing number of countries are introducing some form of nurse prescribing. However, international reviews concerning nurse prescribing are scarce and lack a systematic and theoretical approach. The aim of this review was twofold: firstly, to gain insight into the scientific and professional literature describing the extent to and the ways in which nurse prescribing has been realis...

AIMS This paper reports a study to elicit background data from recently qualified nurse prescribers and explore aspects of their work. BACKGROUND Nurse prescribing has been introduced quite recently in the United Kingdom. Although a certain amount of information is available about the characteristics of nurse prescribers, relatively little is known about their professional backgrounds, their ...

AIM This study sought to elicit the views of psychiatric nurses in the United States on various aspects of nurse prescribing, with the aim of informing UK nurses about future problems and possible solutions. METHOD A survey design with an opportunistic sample of psychiatric nurse clinical specialists was used. The questionnaire consisted of 14 items seeking to elicit information on demographi...

AIM To explore nurse prescribing from the patient's viewpoint. METHOD This study was undertaken in one primary care group in Leicestershire. All prescribing health visitors (n = 17), district nurses (n = 9) and practice nurses (n = 1) were asked to recruit five patients for whom they had prescribed. Fifty patients took part in a telephone or face-to-face interview. Participants were predomina...

Your article on nurse prescribing (analysis November 7) quotes me as stating that in relation to undertaking nurse prescribing 'some district nurses and health visitors need a three-line whip'.