Independent and Supplementary Prescribing At a Glance

Barry Hill has been a registered nurse for 17 years and is skilled in acute and critical care. He worked in general, cardiac and neuro trauma ICU at Imperial College NHS trust and progressed from staff nurse to a surgical matron. Barry began working as a clinical mentor in intensive care nursing in 2006 and has worked in Higher Education teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate students since 2014. His key areas of interest are acute and critical care, clinical skills, pharmacology, and advanced level practice. Barry has published widely in journals and books and is a Senior Fellow with the Higher Education Academy.Aby Mitchell, Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing, and Professional Lead for Simulation and Immersive Technologies, University of West London, UK. Aby started her nursing career in 1998 in her local general hospital, working as a staff nurse within a burns and plastics and head and neck cancer unit. In 1999, she moved into district nursing and developed a special interest in tissue viability and palliative care. Aby has worked in Higher Education since 2014, teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate students. She is now professional lead for simulation and immersive technologies at the University of West London.

• Contributors viiPreface xPart 1 Prescribing 11 Scope of Practice NMP 22 Professional, legal, and ethical issues 43 Independent and supplementary prescribing 64 Community practitioner nurse prescriber (V150/V100) 85 Critical thinking and clinical reasoning 106 Exploring interventions 127 Evidence-based diagnosis 148 Referring to other members of the multidisciplinary team 169 Clinical management plans 18Part 2 Consideration of non-pharmacological and pharmacological interventions 2110 Non-pharmacological approaches 2211 Pharmacological treatment options 2412 Prescribing reference guides 2613 Medication selection 2814 How to prescribe 3015 Risk benefit assessment 3216 Pharmacodynamics 3417 Pharmacokinetics 3618 Holistic assessment 3819 Quality of life 4020 Evidence-based practice 4221 Medicines and public health 4422 Infection prevention and control 46Part 3 Advanced history taking and examination 4923 Consultation models 5024 Principles of history taking and physical examination skills 5225 Preparation for objective structured clinical examination 5426 History taking for patients who lack mental capacity 5827 Prescribing and the mental capacity act 6028 Skin history taking and physical examination 6229 Neurological history taking and physical examination 6430 Head, ears, eyes, nose, and throat 6631 Lymph node assessment 6832 Endocrine history taking and physical examination 7033 Respiratory 7234 Cardiovascular history taking and physical examination 7435 Abdominal history taking and physical examination for non-medical prescribers 7636 Genitourinary system history taking and physical examination 7837 Musculoskeletal history taking and physical examination 80Part 4 Shared Decision-making 8338 Equality, diversity, and inclusion 8439 Concordance 8640 Building relationships 8841 Inclusive prescribing and informed choices 9042 Medicine's optimisation 9243 Social prescribing 94Part 5 Prescribing Practice 9744 Adverse drug reactions 9845 Frameworks and guidelines 10046 Prescribing generic products 10247 Medication calculations 10448 Non-medical authorisation of blood components 10649 Electronic prescribing 108Part 6 Patient education and health promotion 11150 Unlicensed medicines 11251 Record-keeping and data management 11452 Adherence 11653 Patients recognising deterioration 11854 Patients' responsibility and self-management 120References 122Index 129