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Multidisciplinary Perspectives Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Cambridge University Press - (ISBN-13: 9780521706872)
Published April 2008
Staffordshire University
Peter Nolan
Staffordshire University
personnel, and
full involvement in decisions about care. Beginning with a discussion of
how prescribing practices have evolved, this book then proceeds to
outline how non-medical prescribing is now implemented from the
perspectives of nurses, pharmacists and allied health professionals. It
explores the impact on practice, and integrates the views and
experiences of patients and service users, as individuals assume
responsibility for their own health and select from a range of treatment
options. The findings reported in this book describe the challenges
posed by policy initiatives, the implications they have for healthcare
personnel, and highlight areas in which further organizational change is
required before the full impact of non-medical prescribing will be felt.
• Provides professionals with an understanding of how prescribing practices have evolved • Gives first hand accounts of prescribers in practice and the problems they encounter, with a number of suggested solutions from training to practice • Presents a multidisciplinary approach; combines the perspectives of prescribers with service users and patients.