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Investigating non-medical prescribers' awareness of compliance

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...

Meeting demand for opioid dependency in an Inner London borough

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...

Prescribing emollients: answers

Complete the table (Table 2, page 484) with the quantity of emollient to prescribe for eczema for one month..

CYCLIZINE

Day 1: #cyclizine is an antihistamine with its clinical niche as an antiemetic. It bears chemical similarity to the ‘piperine’ structure found in the black pepper plant. Developed in 1947, its...

COVID-19's impact on healthcare staff: the evolving picture

Personal protective equipment (PPE) is at the heart of controlling the spread of the COVID-19 infection in hospitals and care setting, as well as the wearing of face masks in public spaces. The use...

Antibiotic resistance

‘Objective evidence-based medical science cannot be wholly separated from the more subjective demands of morality and ethics’ .

Shelf lives of medication

What is the rate (in micrograms per day) that a tablet will lose active ingredient, as it degrades? .

Independent non-medical prescribing in a nurse-led hospice: strengths and challenges

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...

Prescribing where there is a comorbid presentation of anxiety and depression: a case study

Although there are over 80 known different transmitters in the brain, each nerve ending only has one type. These neurotransmitters tend to be grouped together and each seems to have a specific role....

Management of COPD exacerbations: pharmacotherapeutics of medications

COPD is described as a preventable and treatable group of lung conditions characterised by airflow obstruction that is not fully reversible (Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease...

Deprescribing in mental health care

There are a number of definitions of the term deprescribing. At its core are facets of the medicines optimisation movement and concerns about polypharmacy, particularly in older adult care..

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