Prescribing for Healthcare Professionals (Level 6)

Module code: PRE6004-C

Module Aims

1. Prepare nurses, midwives, pharmacists, podiatrists to prescribe as independent and supplementary prescribers and diagnostic radiographers as supplementary prescribers.

2. Allow experienced non medical health professionals to enhance their knowledge and gain critical awareness of contemporary issues in order to become safe, competent and effective prescribers, within current legal and professional guidelines.

Outline Syllabus

Eight broad areas have been defined as the necessary to develop the knowledge and skills needed to achieve competence as a prescriber. These are:

  1. Consultation, decision-making and therapy including referral.
  2. Legal, Policy and Ethical Aspects:Legislation underpinning Independent and Supplementary prescribing practice.
  3. Professional accountability and responsibility.
  4. Prescribing in a public health context.
  5. Basic and applied therapeutics (including clinical pharmocology and the effects of co-morbidity). 
  6. Evidence based practice and clinical governance in relation to independent and supplementary prescribing.
  7. Influences on, and psychology of prescribing.
  8. Prescribing in a team context.
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