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...

BACKGROUND Supplementary prescribing for mental health nurses was first introduced in the UK in 2003. Since then, a number of studies have reported stakeholders' perceptions of the success of the initiative. However, there has been little experimental research conducted into its effectiveness. This paper reports findings from the first known study to compare the cost and clinical impact of ment...

It seemed almost inevitable that there would be a secondary care backlash towards GPs being 'let loose' with a scalpel ('Primary excision of cutaneous melanoma'). Any GP practising regular minor surgery sessions over many years will surely unwittingly excise the very occasional malignant skin lesion. I have no doubt that dermatologists occasionally mistakenly excise a benign one! Are we not in ...

Abstract Introduction: Since prescribing is a new subject in the nursing profession, it is necessary to assess nurses' attitudes to and readiness for this new responsibility. Objective: This study aimed to investigate nurses' attitudes to and readiness for nurse prescribing in teaching hospitals of Tabriz City, Iran. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional analytical study was conducted...

BACKGROUND The role of nurse prescriber has been recognised in the community since the 1990s but it was only in 2002 that it was extended to acute care. At the time of the study, little was known about the impact and effectiveness of nurse prescribing in the acute setting. AIM To evaluate the implementation of nurse prescribing roles at an acute trust in England. METHOD A mixed-methods, sin...

BACKGROUND Recently, primary care in the United Kingdom has undergone substantial changes in skill mix. Non-medical prescribing was introduced to improve patient access to medicines, make better use of different health practitioners' skills and increase patient choice. There is little evidence about value-based patient preferences for 'prescribing nurse' in a general practice setting. OBJECTI...

AIM This paper is a report of a study to examine Nurse Independent/Nurse Supplementary Prescribing for people with diabetes and the extent to which these nurses feel prepared for this role. BACKGROUND An area of care in which nurses, caring for people with diabetes, are involved is the management of medications. There is little or no evidence examining the prescription of medicines by nurses ...

AIM This paper is a report of a study to explore nurses' views on the benefits of adopting the role of prescribing for patients with acute and chronic pain. BACKGROUND It was envisioned that the advent of nurse prescribing would be beneficial to the efficiency and effectiveness of the United Kingdom National Health Service. Research to date does indeed indicate that nurse prescribing can be b...

Practice nurses are defined as those nurses who work in general practices and are employed by GPs.This includes nurses who have gained further qualifications and are working as nurse practitioners and minor illness specialist nurses. Despite the success of nurse-led services in primary care, the move into extended nurse prescribing has not been as high as predicted. A questionnaire survey of al...