title: A meta-synthesis study of literature review and systematic review published in nurse prescribing.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Prescribing represents a new aspect of practice for nurses. To make qualitative results more accessible to clinicians, researchers, and policy makers, individuals are urged to synthesize findings from related studies. Therefore this study aimed to aggregate and interpret existing literature review and systematic studies to obtain new insights on nurse prescription.
  
  
  METHODS
  This was a qualitative meta synthesis study using Walsh and Downe process. In order to obtain data all Digital National Library of Medicine's databases, search engines and several related sites were used. Full texts with "review and nurs* prescri* " words in the title or abstract in English language and published without any time limitation were considered. After eliminating duplicate and irrelevant studies, 11 texts were selected. Data analysis was conducted using qualitative content analysis. Multiple codes were compared based on the differences and similarities and divided to the categories and themes.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The results from the meta synthesis of the 11 studies revealed 8 themes namely: leading countries in prescribing, views, features, infrastructures, benefits, disadvantages, facilitators and barriers of nursing prescription that are discussed in this article. The results led to a schematic model.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Despite the positive view on nurse prescribing, there are still issues such as legal, administrative, weak research and educational deficiencies in academic preparation of nurses that needs more effort in these areas and requires further research.
authors.affiliation: 1. PhD Candidate, Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Iran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran & Social Determinants of Health (SDH) Research Center, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Guilan University of Medical Sciences (GUMS), Guilan, Iran. darvishpour@gums.ac.ir.
authors.forename: Azar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Darvishpour
authors.affiliation: 2. Associate Professor of Nursing, Center for Nursing Care Research, Department of Nursing Management, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Iran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran. joolaees@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Soodabeh
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Joolaee
authors.affiliation: 3. Associate Professor, Department of critical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran. heraghiali2000@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Mohammad Ali
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Cheraghi
keywords: Meta-synthesis; Nurse prescribing; Review