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Jane, a 30-year-old female, had a long-standing history of low mood, anxiety, periods of poor sleep and one episode of hypomania. She had previously been prescribed several different selective...
The study comprised two phases. In phase one, an expert group devised a questionnaire which was tested with a small subset of physiotherapists utilising cognitive interviewing for content validity....
The results were set out into five major themes: taught content (pertaining to prescribing knowledge, safety, communication and continuing professional development); assessment methods of the...
This work aimed to describe the prescribing practice of a nutrition support dietitian working within intestinal rehabilitation and to identify how long after qualification the first prescription was...
Supplementary prescribing involves a voluntary partnership between an IP (a doctor or dentist) and an SP to implement an agreed, patient-specific clinical management plan (CMP), with the patient's...
In July 2000 the Department of Health (DH, 2000) published the NHS Plan. This included strategies to develop traditional roles, allowing nurses opportunities to evolve and challenge boundaries in...
This scoping review protocol was registered with the Open Science Framework Registry on 31 July 2021 (registered DOI: 10.17605/OSF.IO/PSR3N), accessible from https://osf.io/psr3n..
The primary focus of the research in NMP to date has been on its impact on patients, practitioners and organisations (Courtenay et al, 2018; Carey et al, 2020). Other studies have identified...
Day 1: A by-product of chloroquine synthesis, quinolone antibiotics were discovered in the early 1960s. Already broad spectrum, the addition of chemical groups such as fluorine led to the 2nd...
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...
Both the College of Paramedics (CoP) (2018) and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) (2016) are clear that, as non-medical prescribers, advanced paramedics are required to review and critically...
The notion of mathematical anxiety (MA) was introduced in the 1950s, then referred to as ‘mathphobia’. Among the various definitions of MA, widely accepted is that of Spicer (2004), focusing on its...
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Seizures are controlled with medication in about 70% of cases; inexpensive anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) are the mainstay of treatment. When seizures do not respond to AED therapy, surgery,...
The NMP initiative dates back to 1986 and was primarily intended for community nurses (DHSS, 1986; DHSS, 1992; DoH, 1999). The potential for extending prescribing rights to include other health care...
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