Record keeping and nurse prescribing: an issue of concern?
As options are explored by the NHS Executive to extend nurse prescribing in terms of expanding the Nurse Prescribers' Formulary and widening the groups of nurses eligible to train to prescribe, issues surrounding record keeping in the community need to be revisited in order to safeguard professional integrity. Prescribing nurses in the community face barriers to accurate and adequate record keeping when access to all patients' records is not permitted and/or time constraints and extra travelling impede the process, potentially threatening the safety of the patient. Until information technology provides the answer to safe and effective use of shared patient records, nurses who prescribe any treatments need to ensure they share full access to all patients' notes.
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University of Southampton.
D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D006801:Humans; D008498:Medical Record Linkage; D009737:Nursing Records; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom