title: How effective are nurses' medicine discussions?
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Nurse prescribers face a daily challenge to optimise medicine-taking through effective communication with patients.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To identify the content of, and participation in, medicine discussion between nurse prescribers and people with diabetes.
  
  
  METHODS
  A purposive sample of 20 nurse prescribers regularly involved with patients with diabetes audio-recorded 59 of their routine consultations.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Some 260 instances of medicine discussion were analysed. The frequency and type of discussion themes indicated the content of nurses' discussion was largely "instruction-based".
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Neither the content nor nature of nurses' medicine discussion was fully congruent with recent National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidance.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Despite favourable comparison with doctor-patient medication discussion, diabetes nurse prescribers' discussion appears limited in its content and interaction style.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southampton.
authors.forename: Andrew
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sibley
mesh_terms: D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000451:nursing*; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000451:nursing*; D006801:Humans; D007004:Hypoglycemic Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D055118:Medication Adherence; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*
chemical_list: D007004:Hypoglycemic Agents