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Non-medical prescribing education provision: How do we meet the needs of the diverse nursing specialisms? [cite this article?]

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2006

S. Hemingway  and
J. Davies
S. Hemingway
Affiliation:
Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing; Nurse Prescribing, University of Sheffield Rotherham, UK
J. Davies
Affiliation:
Nursing Lecturer, Nurse Prescribing, University of Sheffield Rotherham, UK
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Abstract

This article discusses the challenging question of facilitating the educational requirements of students who enter the extended/supplementary prescribing programmes from diverse clinical backgrounds. Data emerging from a survey of mental health nurses (MHNs) by one of the authors (S.H.) and specifically what they perceive as the educational providers role in helping them develop as prescribers is presented. Secondly, the second author (J.D.) then discusses the implications of responding to student's expectations and importantly facilitating competence for the student for the differing contexts of where they will prescribe.

Keywords

Mental health nursesEducational providerNursing specialismsQuestionnaire surveyNurse prescribing
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Information
Nurse Prescriber , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , April 2005 , pp. 1 - 5 , e58
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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