This conference looks at national developments in non medical prescribing in mental health, improving and maintaining prescribing competence and the use of the national prescribing competency framework in mental health.
The Role of the Non-Medical Prescriber in De-Prescribing Psychiatric Medicines
• working with people to reduce dependence on medication and de-prescribe
• stopping psychotropic medication
• managing side effects and withdrawal symptoms
Speaker: Caroline Parker
Lead Pharmacist – Community Mental Health Teams Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust
Caroline Parker, FFRPS, FRPharmS, FCMHP
Lead Pharmacist for Community Mental Health Teams, Gloucestershire Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust.
Caroline is a mental health pharmacist. Her clinical role includes working as a member of a psychiatric intensive care unit team and in community mental health teams. She is a qualified independent non-medical prescriber.
Prior to moving to Gloucestershire she worked as a specialist mental health pharmacist across a wide range of psychiatric services delivering direct patient care in several central London hospitals. She was the Consultant Pharmacist for Adult Mental Health in Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust from 2007 until 2020.
She served on the National Association of Psychiatric Intensive Care Units (NAPICU) executive committee between 2008-2019 mostly as the Director of Operations.
She is a Fellow of the College of Mental Health Pharmacy (CMHP), an accredited Faculty Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, a Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, and is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Psychiatric Intensive Care.
EXTENDED SESSION: Demonstrating Competence in Prescribing Practice
• demonstrating competence in non-medical prescribing through the Competency Framework for All Prescribers
• supporting non-medical prescribers: infrastructure needed to support the safe and effective development and implementation of non-medical prescribing
• changes to the Designated Prescribing Practitioner role and the RPS Competency Framework for Designated Prescribing Practitioners
• the HEE Advanced Practice in Mental Health Curriculum and Capabilities Framework
• keeping your prescribing knowledge up-to-date: accessing education, training and resources
• understanding your limits of practice and competence
Speaker & Chair: Mrs Kirsty Fishburn
Course Director for Non-Medical Prescribing and Lecturer in Mental Health, University of Hull
BSc (hons), INP, MSc, RMN, SFHEA, PhD Student
I qualified as a mental health nurse in 2000 after many years of wanting to be the next Indiana Jones. Once I realised this was not a possible career trajectory, largely because hats do not suit me.
I started as a Staff Nurse and then worked my way up to Hospital Director over years enjoying roles such as Charge Nurse, Nurse Consultant and Director of Nursing. I completed my MSc in Health Professional Education and decided I wanted a change and hoped maybe some of the knowledge I had gained along the way might be of benefit to people who wanted to work in Healthcare. I joined the University of Hull in 2015 and started my Ph.D. in 2016 (yes nearly there). I now love to teach people who want to know more about working with people, drugs and mental health. Everyday is literally a school day!
I always loved how tablets can physiologically affect us, how can a tablet stop you hearing voices? Or help you manage your emotions. I could not understand how just by swallowing or having a liquid injected into our bodies this could change how we feel, think, act…. Blew my mind!!!! I wanted to know more. I therefore did my Non-Medical Prescribing in 2006 and have been a prescriber ever since. I now lead the non-medical prescribing at the University of Hull. It still blows my mind… always more to learn!
More personally, I love horror movies and big hairy spiders… I love to travel with my husband and embarrass the kids when the opportunity arises.
I do look forward to meeting you.
Kirsty
