Non-medical prescribing
By: edited by Mahesh Sodha and Soraya Dhillon
Publisher: Pharmaceutical Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; Chicago
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780853699194; 9780853697688; 9781282304161
Subjects: Drugs; Nurses; Prescribing; Allied health personnel; Prescription privileges
Description: Non-medical Prescribing is an essential new guide designed to ensure confident prescribing in specialist areas. The need for this text stems from the necessity to develop non-medical prescribing in practice. It will be an indispensable resource for all non-medical prescribers including nurses, pharmacists, optometrists, physiotherapists and other healthcare professionals who desire to become supplementary or independent prescribers in their field. The book is divided into two comprehensive sections and provides an overview of non-medical prescribing by healthcare professionals other than docto.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Development of non-medical prescribing- historical background and competency framework for successful prescribing / Maxine Offredy; title: Legal and ethical aspects of prescribing / Joy Wingfield; title: Clinical governance and patient safety in prescribing / Richard O'Neill; title: Principles of prescribing and drug handling / Soraya Dhillon, Andrzej Kostrzewski and Kiren Gill; title: Clinical decision making and evidence-based prescribing / Maxine Offredy; title: Prescribing in diabetes / Alan Sinclair; title: Prescribing in palliative care / Jo Noble-Gresty; title: Prescribing in cardiology / Helen Williams; title: Respiratory disease management / Nader Siabi; title: Prescribing in oncology / Nicola Stoner; title: Prescribing in mental health / Fabrizio Schifano.