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Paths to prescribing

03 September 1997

Nursing Standard

News comment

DISCUSSION is hotting up on the evidence organisations are submitting to the government’s review on prescribing, supply and administration of medicines, with the...

Is there a nurse on board?

18 November 1998

Nursing Standard

Opinion

I AM INTRIGUED by the case of a doctor who requested payment from an airline following his rendering of emergency treatment I recently successfully delivered a...

Frustrated prescribing

04 August 1999

Nursing Standard

Editorial

The work of many nurses is constantly obstructed by the inability to prescribe medication for their patients.

Direct action

04 April 2001

Nursing Standard

Perspectives

Throughout the UK new structures are evolving to commission and supply nursing care in primary care settings. While these tend to concentrate on services...

Step by step

16 May 2001

Nursing Standard

Perspectives

Since the government came out of hiding on nurse prescribing a couple of weeks ago (news May 9), I have been inundated with "calls and email from people asking why...

CPHVA is open-minded about direct entry

19 March 2003

Nursing Standard

Letter

I am writing to clarify the Community Practitioners’ and Health Visitors’ Association (CPHVA) position regarding direct entry to the health visiting profession (news...

Down the pan

22 January 2003

Nursing Standard

Perspectives

At some point, whether for a parents’ evening or end-of-term show, many people will have gone into their children’s schools. In passing they might have seen those...

Drivers must look out for bikes

16 June 2004

Nursing Standard

Letter

I was pleasantly distracted by the sight of a motorcyclist as I browsed the pages of Nursing Standard (clinical digest June 2), particularly as he appeared to be in...

Nursing skills in the

07 September 2004

Nursing Standard

Nursing the future

SO, WHAT has nursing done for me? I ask myself this question having been forced to think about it by a journalist with a dead-line. Well, for one thing it has given...

Use practitioners and pay them well for it

06 December 1995

Nursing Standard

Letter

Sheila Roy is right to assert that it is a waste of time and money when graduates from nurse practitioner programmes simply return to their old job with little...