Practical skills: prescribing consultation in practice.
Whether trained to use the Nurse Prescribers' Formulary for District Nurses and Health Visitors or the Nurse Prescribers' Extended Formulary, nurses who prescribe will have to develop a range of new or enhanced skills to practice effectively. In the first of an occasional series on practical skills for prescribing. Alison While examines the prelude to any prescription: the consultation.
D002983:Clinical Competence; D003657:Decision Making; D011307:Drug Prescriptions / Q000592:standards*; D004739:England; D006801:Humans; D008487:Medical History Taking; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D011320:Primary Health Care; D017009:Professional Autonomy