Non-Medical Prescribing

Theme:: Workforce development
Overview:: Initially developed for nurses, this resource has now been comprehensively updated so that it is relevant for all non-medical prescribers.
Contact:: Julie Ferrier

The control on medical prescribing has existed for many years, and evolved to respond to changing need in healthcare. Today, non-medical prescribers are bound to the same control with some specific additional restrictions.

Link to Non-Medical Prescribing resource

The resource contains information on the following relevant topic areas in relation to non-medical prescribing:

Legal, policy and ethical aspects
Prescribing in the public health context
Clinical pharmacology including the effects of co-morbidity
Scenarios and cases
Evaluation

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