The impact of prescribing in wound care on nurses and patients.
The extension of independent nurse prescribing has paved the way not only for extending the Nurse Prescribers' Formulary, but also for the expansion of prescribing rights to other groups of practitioners, including tissue viability nurses. Initial evidence suggests that the changes have been a success, but this paper will discuss the implications for nurses and for patients.
Windsor Wing Day Hospital.
Karen
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LayFlurrie
Hemel
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Hempstead
D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000451:nursing*