Non-medical prescribing in an outpatient setting: renal services

Abstract

Patients with chronic disease are increasingly managed by nurse practitioners and nurse prescribing affords the full completion of patient episodes in the absence of the medical team ensuring a proactive approach to patient care. In the renal services at St. Mary's Trust, it was decided to develop individualized clinical management plans to include not only those patients seen in the pre-dialysis clinic but also those patients receiving haemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, day case procedures and transplantation.

Nurse and pharmacist supplementary prescribing in the UK—A thematic review of the literature

“…In both empirical research and anecdotal papers, it appeared that SP by nurses was being introduced in many areas of practice, both in primary and secondary care. The most commonly identified area of research involved mental health [37,38,45] but literature relating to other clinical areas was identified, including renal services [50], rheumatology [51], dermatology [52], epilepsy [53] and substance misuse [54]. James [36] describing her methodologically limited study of diabetic inpatients, reported that patients experienced less medication delays, less variation in attending staff and increased liaison between SP nurse and ward staff and no prescription errors.…”