Nurse prescribing by protocol.
Taking their lead from patients' needs, innovative practitioners are coming to new prescribing arrangements that are free from past constraints. One such innovation involves nurses making decisions to give a drug according to a predetermined criteria with the support of a medical practitioner. This paper shows how a carefully organised system of administering drugs against protocol can work and how it is proving beneficial to patients.
Mallett
J
J
Royal Marsden NHS Trust, London.
Faithfull
S
S
Guerrero
D
D
Rhys-Evans
F
F
D002985:Clinical Protocols; D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D006801:Humans; D009720:Nurse Clinicians; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D017009:Professional Autonomy