title: Nurse prescribing: current status and future developments.
abstract: The recent government proposal to add another 60 drugs to the nurse prescribers' formulary is yet another change in the fast developing area of nurse prescribing. Prescribing offers nurses the chance to improve the care that they deliver to their patients. It also provides opportunities for collaborative work in driving the national directives forward, resulting in new roles for nurses.
authors.affiliation: Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust.
authors.forename: Marian
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lanyon
mesh_terms: D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D008008:Licensure, Nursing; D024802:Nurse's Role; D010602:Pharmacopoeias as Topic; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom