Nurse prescribing in mental health: a person-centred approach
Martin Jones Associate director of nursing and a visiting professor, Surrey University
Simon Whitfield Chief pharmacist, Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Richard Gray Professor of nursing, University of East Anglia, Norwich
This article outlines how Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, a mental health and learning disability trust, implemented a preceptorship prescribing pathway for mental health nurses. The aim was to support nurses to move from supplementary prescribing to independent prescribing within a person-centred framework.
Nursing Standard.
22, 52, 35-38.
doi: 10.7748/ns2008.09.22.52.35.c6648
Correspondence
martin.jones@sabp.nhs.uk
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