Non-Medical Independent and Supplementary Prescribing for Pharmacists - Advanced Professional Development [Level HE7] part-time (26 weeks)

Why choose this course? Course overview This course is designed to meet the specific needs of nurses and their employers. It is delivered by experienced, expert tutors. On completion you will be able to demonstrate an ability to communicate effectively with patients and carers and assess patients’ needs for medicines - taking account of their wishes, values, ethnicity and choices in their treatment. You will have the specific skills to conduct a relevant physical examination of patients with those conditions for which you may prescribe. You will demonstrate safe, appropriate and cost effective prescribing. In addition, you will understand the legal and professional frameworks for accountability and responsibility in relation to independent and supplementary prescribing. In identifying, critiquing and applying sources of information, giving advice and decision support and explaining how they will be used in prescribing practice, you will take into account evidence-based practice and national/local guidelines. The skills you develop will mean you can recognise, evaluate, and respond to influences on prescribing practice at individual, local and national levels; as well as monitor the response to therapy and justify modifications to treatment or referral to other health professionals as appropriate as a qualified Independent and Supplementary Prescriber. Effective prescribing is a team effort, requiring co-operation and planning. This is demonstrated by the scope of this demanding and rewarding course. Through your critical analysis of the roles and relationships of others involved in prescribing, supplying and administering medicines, you will also be able to justify, using a rationale, the decision-making...