BACKGROUND Nurses make a valuable contribution to pain services and have the potential to improve the safety and effectiveness of pain management. A recent addition to the role of the specialist pain nurse in the United Kingdom has been the introduction of prescribing rights, however there is a lack of literature about their role in prescribing pain medication. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study...

This paper reports on a multiple-case study of prescribing by nurse specialists in Dutch hospital settings. Most analyses of interprofessional negotiations over professional boundaries take a macro sociological approach and ignore workplace jurisdictions. Yet boundary blurring takes place and healthcare professionals renegotiate formal policies in the workplace. This paper studies the division ...

The President: Good evening everybody. This evening we have got a very important lecture and I am glad to see you have all come. Matt Griffiths is a Professor of Nurse Prescribing, or a visiting Professor. More substantially, he is a Senior Nurse with a long background in nursing, particularly in Accident and Emergency medicine, but most importantly from our point of view he is the Advisor to t...

The recent government proposal to add another 60 drugs to the nurse prescribers' formulary is yet another change in the fast developing area of nurse prescribing. Prescribing offers nurses the chance to improve the care that they deliver to their patients. It also provides opportunities for collaborative work in driving the national directives forward, resulting in new roles for nurses.

The aim of this study was to identify and examine the differences in opinions held by health care professionals and the general public concerning the right to administer and prescribe medication which has been awarded to nurses and midwives in Poland.The study was conducted from December 1, 2014 to July 1, 2015, in randomly selected primary health care clinics, among 2227 individuals, including...

BACKGROUND A new initiative was introduced in Ireland following legislative changes that allowed nurses with special training to prescribe ionising radiation (X-ray) for the first time. A small number of studies on nurse prescribing of ionising radiation in other contexts have found it to be broadly as safe as ionising radiation prescribing by physicians. Sociological literature on perceptions ...