title: Writing the changes for nurses.
abstract: Prescribing powers for family planning nurses has been a heated and topical issue for decades and progress has been impossibly slow. Jane Urwin wonders if this extended role for nurses will ever materialise.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Urwin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D005193:Family Planning Services; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000639:trends*; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D006113:United Kingdom