This website is intended for healthcare professionals
This website is intended for healthcare professionals
Try the following drug calculations and remember that Sir Isaac Newton [1643-1727] once said ‘Truth [the answer] is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of...
Before the pandemic, the modernisation of the NHS included digitalisation and the use of remote consultations (NHS UK, 2019; Welsh Government, 2019; NHS Digital, 2020). There had been a slow but...
With the help of Prescribing and Therapeutics Training Ltd and the Journal of Prescribing Practice, you can earn your 1-hour CPD certificate.
Throughout my training, and as a newly qualified NMP, I was fortunate to work closely with a multidisciplinary team of consultants and nurse specialists in the specialty of rheumatology, all of whom...
‘Prescribing by a practitioner (eg doctor, dentist, nurse, pharmacist) responsible and accountable for the assessment of patients with undiagnosed or diagnosed conditions and for decisions about the...
Day 1: As the first new/non-vitamin K oral anti-coagulant (NOAC) in class and the first warfarin alternative for 50 years, #dabigatran was licensed in the USA/UK in 2010–11 for the treatment and...
‘It is clear that without a questioning attitude to the meaning of apparently self-evident words and phrases in the scientific lexicon, confusion could arise’
The literature search systematically reviewed evidence, to investigate if NMPs in an acute NHS trust are aware of what is required to remain compliant as active, competent and safe professional...
The Benzodiazepine and Opiate Withdrawal Service (BOWS) service is a recently developed service to treat patients for dependency on codeine based drugs prescribed or used illicitly, benzodiazepines...
In St Teresa's Hospice, iNMP is mostly carried out at the IPU, for palliative/EoL patients suffering complex and enduring symptoms, which cannot be managed by the primary and/or secondary care generic...
The National Health Service (NHS) published their Long Term Plan in 2019. It focuses on how the health service can develop over the next ten years with advances in medicine, changing population health...
Journal of Prescribing Practice shares the latest clinical expertise and professional guidance for non-medical prescribers. Our goal is to provide the knowledge to help you prescribe more efficiently and effectively.
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