Improving the numeracy skills of nurse prescribers.
With the expansion of nurse prescribing to include the whole British National Formulary, it is essential that all prescribing nurses can accurately calculate and check medication doses. A more uniform approach to professional education for nurse prescribers is needed. This process would be assisted by dissemination of existing good practice and adjustments to the current national standards of assessment.
Warburton
Paul
P
Non-Medical Prescribing Programme, Edge Hill University, Liverpool. warburtp@edgehill.ac.uk
Kahn
Peter
P
D019985:Benchmarking; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D011307:Drug Prescriptions; D004358:Drug Therapy / Q000451:nursing; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics; D024802:Nurse's Role; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D017751:Safety Management