Nurse/Non Medical Prescribing: Current Issues
Professor Angela Alexander MBE
Professor Emerita, School of Pharmacy, University of Reading
& Chair, Task and Finish Group for the 2021 review Competency Framework for all Prescribers
& Chair, Working Party, The Competency Framework for Designated Prescribing Practitioners (DPP), Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Competency Framework for all Prescribers
• Competence Framework for Designated Prescribing Practitioners (prescribing supervisor and prescribing assessor)
• expanding prescribing scope of practice
Developing your skills, confidence and competence as a Nurse/Non Medical Prescriber in Cardiology
Alison Pottle
Cardiology Nurse Consultant
Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
• developing, demonstrating and maintaining continued competence in Nurse/Non Medical Prescribing in cardiology
• developing confidence in prescribing practice
• ensuring your practice is evidence based: guidelines and evidence
• keeping your prescribing knowledge up-to-date: accessing education, training and resources
• assessing and evaluating prescribing competence
• ensuring you have the history-taking, clinical assessment and diagnosis skills to prescribe
appropriately and effectively
• measuring the impact of nurse medical prescribing on practice: audit and evaluation
• my experience of nurse prescribing within cardiology nurse led clinics including rapid
access chest pain clinics, the nurse-led follow-up service for patients who have undergone
percutaneous coronary intervention, the lipoprotein apheresis unit and pre admission clinics
for elective cardiology patients
• involving patients to improve adherence and outcomes
Nurse/Non Medical Prescribing in Cardiology: Strategy & Governance
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Jan Keenan
Consultant Nurse Cardiology and NMP Lead Oxford University Hospitals
& Visiting Fellow Oxford Brookes University
• ensuring effective governance of prescribing practice in Cardiology
• evaluating where prescribing could improve care for your patients
• developing a new service and working differently during Covid-19
• how coronavirus can interact with heart medication
• issues and challenges around prescribing in cardiology