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The expanding role of nurse prescribers
Author(s) -
Dowden Angela
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
prescriber
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.106
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1931-2253
pISSN - 0959-6682
DOI - 10.1002/psb.1469
Subject(s) - medicine , scope (computer science) , legislation , nursing , nurse practitioners , scope of practice , law , health care , political science , computer science , programming language
Since the first legislation back in the 1980s, UK nurses have earned increasing powers to prescribe. This article discusses the scope and limitations of nurses' prescribing role now and in the future.