Nurse prescribing: developing the evaluation agenda.
Nurse prescribing raises complex issues, including erosion of the medical monopoly on control of medication management, compensation for physician shortage and the introduction of guideline-driven prescribing (Jordan and Hughes 1996, McCartney et al 1999). This article sets the recent UK developments in context and discusses the evaluation agenda.
Jordan
Sue
S
School of Health Science, University of Wales, Swansea. S.E.Jordan@swansea.ac.uk
Griffiths
Howard
H
D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D004358:Drug Therapy / Q000451:nursing*; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000458:organization & administration; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D024802:Nurse's Role; D010819:Physician's Role; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D006113:United Kingdom