Consultation Skills In Relation To Non Medical Prescribing.
Non-medical prescribers Types of nurse prescriber Nurses, Midwives, Pharmacists and other allied healthcare professionals (AHPs) who have completed an accredited prescribing course and registered their qualification with their regulatory body, are able to prescribe.
Although there are some reservations expressed, for example in respect to potential over-prescribing of antibiotics (UK Parliament, 2002), or marginalisation of medical roles (Psychiatric News, 2005), nurse prescribing is currently broadly supported politically and professionally, and a lot of work is being done to assess the efficacy and relevance of the current training.
Non-Medical Prescribing Train to become an independent and supplementary prescriber on our Non-Medical Prescribing postgraduate programmes, where you will learn in accordance with the standards set by the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), or the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
The Non-Medical Prescribing e-learning resource contains learning on a range of prescribing related subjects including; Pharmacology, Legal and Professional Frameworks, Professional Accountability and Responsibility, Clinical Governance and Evidence Based Practice, Communication, Decision Making, Prescribing Safely Appropriately and Cost Effectively, Prescribing in Multi-professional Teams.
The content of this course meets the requirements of both the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC, 2006) and Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC, 2013) prescribing standards. This outline syllabus identifies the principal areas of knowledge, understanding and abilities required to underpin the practice of prescribing.
Non-medical prescribing will enable greater patient choice and satisfaction in their care (Department of Health, 2006). Nurses are able to prescribe under the Medicines Act (1968) and Medicinal Products: Prescriptions by Nurses Act (1992), in the last few years there have been policy drivers from the Department of Health to encourage and support nurses to expand their roles to improve patient.
An accredited independent prescribing course is typically run over a period of 6 months. The course is part-time and often delivered through a combination of face-to-face teaching sessions (often one day per week) and self-directed study.