This website is intended for healthcare professionals
This website is intended for healthcare professionals
There are two main changes in the guidelines that will have implications for prescribing practice. The guidelines recommend that eligible women can be prescribed a 12-month supply of combined hormonal...
CKD is used as a general term used when someone has signs of abnormal kidney function – either a reduction in estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) to less than 60 ml/min/1.73 m2 or an increase...
The historical roots of simulation for the practice of skills, problem solving and judgment are evident in work carried out by Rosen (2008). McCaughey and Traynor (2010) have demonstrated that...
‘Trainees would benefit from explicit training in clinical (diagnostic) reasoning, patient safety, human factors, critical thinking, managing uncertainty, cognitive heuristics and biases, test...
Ben, aged 52, has type 2 diabetes mellitus and has been commenced on gabapentin capsules for neuropathic pain. The British National Formulary (Joint Formulary Committee, 2019) states that he should be...
‘A low-carbohydrate approach can benefit patients with diabetes and save on diabetes drug-related expenditure’.
The recently published study in the Journal of Psychopharmacology has revealed that although cannabis does have some harmful effects on the areas of the brain involved in processing sensory and...
This UK study used a quantitative approach to explore the need for greater pharmacology content in nursing programmes, acknowledging that most pre-registration programmes limit pharmacology content to...
Sean wants to prescribe pregabalin for his patient with neuropathic pain. He wants to start with 75 mg twice daily for 7 days, then increase the dose to 150 mg twice daily. He will be reviewing his...
There are various ways to classify the different types of glaucoma (Figure 1). The most common type of glaucoma is open-angle or angle-closure glaucoma (Figure 2). The ‘angle’ is the name given to the...
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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