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Rick Fisher

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PubMed2005

Relationships in nurse prescribing in district nursing practice in England: a preliminary investigation.

Nurse prescribing is a significant change in the working lives of district nurses in the United Kingdom. It has been achieved as the result of a 13-year sociopolitical struggle, eventually culminating in an Act of Parliament, which enabled selected nurses to prescribe from a limited formulary. This research attempts to discover the nature of its impact on the relationships between prescribers, nurses, doctors, pharmacists, patients and carers. Using a qualitative approach, guided interviews were carried out with nurses, doctors, pharmacists, patients and carers. Initial findings indicate that far from producing an independent prescribing workforce, some prescribers are reverting to their preprescribing behaviour. For these prescribers, there is a suggestion that old hierarchies are being reinforced, which might be detrimental to nurse prescribing.

Drug Prescriptions↗
PubMed2004

District nurses: relationships in nurse prescribing.

Although nurse prescribing has been established in the UK for approximately 8 years, little is known about the effect this additional role is having on those who are involved in its processes. This article reports on the early phrases of an ethnographic study which is aiming to discover how prescribing is altering the ways in which district nurses relate to general practitioners, pharmacists, other community nurses, patients and carers during the experience of nurse prescribing. Using qualitative methodology the project has revealed that some relationships have improved, while others appear to have deteriorated slightly. Preliminary indications are that the introduction of prescribing, along with many other centrally driven initiatives, is altering the face of district nursing practice.

Community Health Nursing↗