1st Edition

Non-Medical Prescribing A Course Companion

Edited By Alison Pooler Copyright 2021
162 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

162 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

162 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This accessible textbook provides a comprehensive resource for healthcare students and professional students studying non-medical prescribing, taking into account the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) competency framework for non-medical prescribing. Non-Medical Prescribing: A Course Companion includes chapters on the context of non-medical prescribing; pharmacology; professional, legal and... Read more

1.Introduction and development of non-medical prescribing  2.Pharmacology, drug interactions and adverse reactions  3.Prescribing in co morbidities and individual differences  4.Clinical decision-making and assessment  5.Legal, professional, policy and ethical aspects of prescribing  6.Psychological influences and issues of concordance  7.The public heath context of prescribing  8.Prescription writing  9.The NMP leads and the multidisciplinary team in prescribing  Afterword.Concluding comments: The future of non-medical prescribing

Biography

Alison Pooler is a senior lecturer in the School of Medicine at Keele University. She developed the non-medical prescribing programmes within the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Keele before moving over to work within medicine. She also undertook the role of a Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) reviewer for non-medical prescribing programmes for a number of years and has completed consultancy work across the UK for other higher education institutes (HEIs) around non-medical prescribing curriculum and standards. A nurse practitioner by background, she graduated from Edinburgh University in 1992 with her nursing degree and worked in many acute areas, finally specializing in respiratory medicine where she worked as a V300 prescriber for a number of years before moving into academia in 2008.