This site provides an update on developments in nurse prescribing and will include relevant documentation and important information. It will provide a useful contact for nurses and managers. Universities running nurse prescribing education will also find it useful.
The Scottish Executive considers nurse prescribing to be a significant driver of change [1], and it is anticipated that the benefits of nurse prescribing go well beyond community and primary care. It is expected that nurses from all settings will become nurse independent prescribers and thus deliver improved services and better outcomes for patients. NHS Board strategic plans must embrace this whole systems approach.
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"Extending Independent Nurse Prescribing within NHSScotland - A Guide for Implementation" (2002) is now out of date. This guidance has been replaced by "Guidance for Nurse Independent Prescribers and for Community Practitioner Nurse Prescribers in Scotland" (2006), and sets out the current administrative and procedural steps needed to enable nurses and midwives to act as independent nurse prescribers. The document provides information and advice on good practice, and refers to the term 'nurse' which includes midwives and specialist community public health nurses. This website extracts information from the latest guidance.
Please click here to view - "Supplementary Prescribing By Nurses within NHSScotland - A Guide for Implementation". This is the latest Guidance for nurse prescribing and sets out the administrative or procedural steps that are needed to enable nurses and midwives to act as supplementary prescribers, and provides information and advice on good practice.
[1]Scottish Executive (2005) Framework for developing nursing roles. Edinburgh: SEHD.