Non-Medical Prescribing

Alison Pooler is a senior lecturer in the School of Medicine at Keele University. She developed the non-medical prescribing programmes within the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Keele before moving over to work within medicine. She also undertook the role of a Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) reviewer for non-medical prescribing programmes for a number of years and has completed consultancy work across the UK for other higher education institutes (HEIs) around non-medical prescribing curriculum and standards. A nurse practitioner by background, she graduated from Edinburgh University in 1992 with her nursing degree and worked in many acute areas, finally specializing in respiratory medicine where she worked as a V300 prescriber for a number of years before moving into academia in 2008.

1.Introduction and development of non-medical prescribing 2.Pharmacology, drug interactions and adverse reactions 3.Prescribing in co morbidities and individual differences 4.Clinical decision-making and assessment 5.Legal, professional, policy and ethical aspects of prescribing 6.Psychological influences and issues of concordance 7.The public heath context of prescribing 8.Prescription writing 9.The NMP leads and the multidisciplinary team in prescribing Afterword.Concluding comments: The future of non-medical prescribing