Nurse Prescribing
The rules for nurse prescribing have changed quite considerably over the past few years. This section explains the changes and details the current legislation for the different types of nurse prescriber. It also explains how to set up a nurse prescriber for each country.
Previous definition |
Current Definition |
District nurse/health visitor fumulary nurses and any nurse undertaking a V100 prescribing programme as part of a Specialist Practitioner |
Community practitioner nurse prescribers (V100) |
Extended formulary nurse prescribers |
Nurse independant prescribers (V200 only) |
Extended/supplementary nurse prescribers |
Nurse independant/supplementary prescribers (V300) |