title: Nurse prescribing by protocol.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Royal Marsden NHS Trust, London.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mallett
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Faithfull
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Guerrero
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rhys-Evans
mesh_terms: D002985:Clinical Protocols; D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D006801:Humans; D009720:Nurse Clinicians; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D017009:Professional Autonomy