AIM To identify the specialties from which trainee prescribers come and to determine their pre-training and post-training concerns about prescribing and how they are utilising their prescribing skills. METHOD A self-report profile questionnaire including open and closed questions, some Likert-type scales and a 24-item, self-report follow-up questionnaire were used. RESULTS Half of the nurse...

Increasingly, the epilepsy nurse specialist has become an integral part of the specialist epilepsy team. Nurse specialists, who practice at an advanced level, frequently advise patients on diagnosis and antiepileptic drug changes. The inclusion of antiepileptic drugs to the nurse Prescribing Formulary would allow specialist nurses to provide a more enhanced service to patients.

A true story Recently a friend of mine (who was also a family planning patient for a while) forgot to take her combined oral contraceptive pill. As a busy detective sergeant in the Metropolitan police and scheduled to work a long weekend, she knew she would not have enough time to go home to take her pill before it became ‘overdue’. Both she and her partner were well motivated to use condoms if...

PURPOSE To identify the prescribing patterns of gerontological nurse practitioners (GNPs) as reported on the Gerontological Nurse Practitioner Practice Profile. Specifically, the study examined (a) GNPs' frequency of prescribing certain categories of medications for older adults; (b) the influence of practice, education, and experience variables on prescribing practices of GNPs; and (c) the rat...

  Background :Prescribing represents a new aspect of practice for nurses. To make qualitative results more accessible to clinicians, researchers, and policy makers, individuals are urged to synthesize findings from related studies. Therefore this study aimed to aggregate and interpret existing literature review and systematic studies to obtain new insights on nurse prescription.   Methods : Thi...