title: Nurse prescribing. The case for prescribing the pill.
abstract: As the law stands, nurses cannot prescribe the oral contraceptive pill. However, it is an open secret that many technical contraventions of the law occur. The nurses at the Margaret Pyke Centre have carried out a pilot study for the re-issuing of oral contraceptives by designated nurses. The aim is to regularise practice within the existing law and to help nurses acquire the authority to prescribe in future. This paper presents the interim findings of the study which suggest that clinical nurse specialists and experienced family planning nurses should prescribe the oral contraceptive pill to healthy women.
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authors.lastname: Wedgwood
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing; D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D003276:Contraceptives, Oral; D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D005193:Family Planning Services; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006113:United Kingdom
chemical_list: D003276:Contraceptives, Oral