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Nurse Prescribing
The aim of this assignment is to demonstrate the use of safe and effective prescribing in practice. I will achieve this by presenting and analysing a prescribing scenario which I have encountered in my current area of practice within a District Nursing Team.
During the case study the patient I have chosen will be referred to as Jean. This is to maintain her anonymity in line with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (2008) guidelines of confidentiality.
I feel it is important for the purpose of my scenario to acknowledge the new skills which I have acquired whilst undertaking the V150 and explain the background to Nurse Prescribing.
The Cumberledge Report (DHSS, 1986) made the initial recommendations for nurses to prescribe. The report identified that, although nurses often new what they wanted they spent valuable time waiting around for prescriptions to be signed by G.P’s.
As the nurses were already contributing to the prescribing decision; particularly around wound care products, enabling them to prescribe would be a more effective use of resources.
An advisory group went on to produce The Crown Report
(DOH, 1986). This recommended that a certain nurses holding
District Nurse or Health Visitor qualifications should be allowed to prescribe from a limited formulary. As a result of this The Medicinal
Products: Prescription by Nurses Act (1992) became the primary legislation. This allowed community nurses with a District Nursing or Health
Visiting qualification to prescribe from a limited formulary in the
Nurse Prescribers Formulary (NPF).
Whilst this enhanced the role of the nurse, reviews continued and legislation was passed. Implementation of the Health and Social
Care Act (2001) enabled extended independent nurse prescribing.
This was however still limited to those nurses with a specialist practitioner qualification. This changed in 2007 with the introduction of the V150 prescribing course. The



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