Nurse prescribing: national data analysis

Nurs Times. 2008 Feb;104(5):46, 48.

Abstract

Kathy Davis and Vari Drennan summarise the results of an investigation into the prescribing behaviours of community-based nurses and GPs, using prescribing in constipation as a case study (Davis and Drennan, 2007).

MeSH terms

  • Benchmarking
  • Community Health Nursing / statistics & numerical data*
  • Constipation / drug therapy*
  • Constipation / nursing
  • Drug Prescriptions* / nursing
  • Drug Prescriptions* / statistics & numerical data
  • Drug Utilization / statistics & numerical data
  • Family Practice / statistics & numerical data
  • Humans
  • Laxatives / therapeutic use*
  • Nurse's Role*
  • Nursing Evaluation Research
  • Pharmacopoeias as Topic
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic
  • Practice Patterns, Physicians' / statistics & numerical data
  • Primary Health Care / statistics & numerical data
  • Professional Autonomy*
  • State Medicine / statistics & numerical data
  • United Kingdom

Substances

  • Laxatives