title: Understanding the Code: use of medicines.
abstract: The revised Code of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), the statutory professional regulator for district nurses, makes clear that while district nurses can interpret the values and principles for medication use in community settings, the standards are not negotiable or discretionary. They must be applied or the district nurse's fitness to practice will be called into question. In the final article in the series analysing the legal implications of the NMC Code on district nurse practice, Richard Griffith considers standard 18 on medicines.
authors.affiliation: Senior Lecturer in Health Law, College of Health Science, Swansea University.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Griffith
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D024802:Nurse's Role; D055553:Prescription Drugs / Q000592:standards*; D013222:State Medicine / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000592:standards*; D006113:United Kingdom
chemical_list: D055553:Prescription Drugs
keywords: NMC Code; accountability; medicines; professionalism