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The role of the nurse prescriber: the views of mental health and non‐mental health nurses
Author(s) -
NOLAN P.,
BRADLEY E.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.69
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1365-2850
pISSN - 1351-0126
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2850.2007.01072.x
Subject(s) - mental health , flexibility (engineering) , workforce , nursing , medicine , quality (philosophy) , mental health care , psychology , psychiatry , philosophy , statistics , mathematics , epistemology , economics , economic growth
Even though the introduction of the role of the nurse prescriber promises improved access to medicines and increased flexibility in the workforce, the take‐up of this role to date has been variable across the UK. This questionnaire‐based study sought to compare the expectations of two distinct groups of nurses, one from a mental health and the other from a non‐mental health background prior to becoming prescribers. Non‐mental health nurses were of the opinion that being able to prescribe would increase efficiency and maximize resources, while mental health nurses saw prescribing primarily in terms of the benefits to clients – increased choice, improved access to care, better information about treatments and better quality of care.