This website is intended for healthcare professionals
This website is intended for healthcare professionals
‘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...
The Gold Standards Framework (GSF) is a model of care that allows GP practices to proactively support patients with their palliative care needs. The GSF was developed in 2000 as a grass roots...
Prescribing legislation in the UK is some of the most liberal worldwide (Kroezen et al, 2011), requiring robust safeguards to ensure patient safety is not compromised. Errors in prescribing are...
Shared decision-making, a key component of universal personalised care in The NHS Long Term Plan (NHS, 2019), aims to provide people with the same choice and control over their mental and physical...
As a registered nurse and independent prescriber, I am accountable for all of my prescribing actions. My definition of accountability is simple: being responsible and answerable to yourself and others...
I was working as a nanny and it literally came into my head. I had no previous desire to be a nurse. It was a strangely overpowering decision, which I had no doubt at all about..
How many 75 mg capsules should be prescribed for 4 weeks? .
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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